I'm trying to write a catch-all filter that will use the information in
the List-ID: header to automatically make a folder for lists that show
up in my inbox. (Yeah, I know some spam might either accidentally or
intentionally have such a header; this comes after my anti-spam stuff so
I don't care too much.) And yeah, some lists don't have that header,
but this will automate much of the list folder creation process for me,
and I'll feel less bad about handling the exceptions manually. And if I
find common exception cases, I can automate them some other way.
Anyway, what I'm trying so far is:
:0
* ^List-Id: \/.*$
{
gname=` echo $MATCH | tr -d '<>' | tr -t '. /' '_' `
LOG="gname $gname
"
.Auto.$gname/
}
I'm getting the following log entries:
gname discussion of the procmail program procmail_lists_RWTH-Aachen_DE
procmail: Skipped ".Auto.$gname/"
The first seems to show that my echo / tr / tr pipeline is doing what I
wanted, *except* that for some reason it's not turning the blanks into
undersores (there's a blank between the '.' and the '/' in SET1 of the
second tr in the pipeline; SET2 is a single underscore). So I dunno
exactly what's wrong there, but I can play with it offline, and I don't
think it has anything to do with procmail or why my rule is failing.
But I mention it in case I'm wrong and it's a flare-lit clue to somebody
here.
The second seems to show that I'm somehow confused at a very basic level
on how to write out messages into a Maildir. (The weird
".Auto.<whatever>/" format seems to be what thunderbird and the Imap
server at Dreamhost.com need to give me subfolders of a folder Auto; it
works with ".Lists.Debian/" and so forth from my manual per-mailing-list
recipes. ) I know I can use variable substitution in action lines --
the standard $HOME/Maildir/ thing depends on it. The docs seem to say
that Procmail will auto-create a maildir for an action line; but am I
right about that? Or is that the problem? The message "Skipped" is
just slightly short on useful information (at least it told me which
action line it skipped; but I'd find *why* useful too).
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