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Re: Fixing RE: RE: RE:

2007-05-27 07:15:09
Dallman Ross schreef:
I'm pretty sure the idea of fixing "RE: RE: RE(3)" in
Subjects has been discussed a few times in the past.
The archives could be consulted.

In any case, though, someone wrote a couple of weeks ago about it
and was not answered.  Here's a procmail-only answer that
doesn't need to recurse:

 SPACE = ' '
 TAB   = '      '
 WS    = $SPACE$TAB

 :0
 * $ ^Subject:([$WS]*RE([(][0-9]+[)])*:(.*\<)?\/[^R0-9$WS:].*
 | formail -I "Subject: RE: $MATCH"


The only thing I can see it doesn't quite do right is,
if there is a colon or series of colons between RE:'s
(without other letters) or at the beginning of the first
non-"RE(#):", it cuts them out too.

Basically, this stops cutting at the first non-"RE(#):",
then prepends one "RE: ".


This does wrong when the original Subject value has initial words
starting with an R or a digit or a colon.

  :0 h
  * $ ^Subject:\/([$WS]*Re([(][0-9]+[)])*:)+
  * MATCH ?? Re.*Re
  * $ ^Subject:$\MATCH\/.*
  | formail -I "Subject: Re:$MATCH"

-- 
Groet, Ruud


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