Thanks. This was a recipe that I was copying and pasting. It was just
a typo. I have somewhere on the order of a couple of hundred rules
involving domain names with that regexp at the end of it. They work OK,
I just blew the edit.
Again, thanks for your help.
Curtis
Professional Software Engineering wrote:
At 10:05 2004-06-23 -0400, Curtis Maurand wrote:
Hello,
yesterday, I dropped a period in a regular expression which
generated an "invalid regexp" error. please see the following rule
:0 B:
* emailsenders\(com|net|org|info|biz|name|us)
spam
I realize that there should have been a period before the opening
parenthesis. However, instead of skipping the rule the mail went
into the ether. What is procmail's behavior when such an error occurs.
Well, take the rule and put it into a sandbox (with verbose logging)
and pump some mail into it.
procmail: Invalid regexp "emailsenders\(com|net|org|info|biz|name|us)"
procmail: Match on "emailsenders\(com|net|org|info|biz|name|us)"
and given your recipe, the messages SHOULD have ended up in the spam
mailbox. Why? Well, if you have a no-condition recipe, it'll simply
execute the delivery. The above "Match on..." bit in a verbose log
is, I believe, an artifact of the logging not fully comprehending the
condition was discarded (the logically easy way to discard a rule
while processing a loop is to simply treat the result as TRUE). If
the condition line included an inversion, apparently that would be
considered as well, thus inverting the result of the default-to-TRUE
invalid regexp. I may be wrong in here - it's supposition based on
how I've seen it respond, and I try to TEST recipes and avoid putting
broken ones into service.
from 'man procmail':
Invalid regexp "x" The regular expression "x" contains
errors (most likely some missing or
extraneous parens).
It's a good idea to run new recipes through a sandbox before putting
them into play.
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