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Re: WHY DOES \[lkjsdf deliver

2008-04-01 21:15:53
At 22:56 2008-04-01 -0400, Homer Wilson Smith wrote:

:0:
* \[sdfljkjlkjsdf
mailbox

    deliver ALL mail to mailbox regardless of what is after
the bracket?

A leading backslash should be preceeded by an empty parenthesis to 
eliminate the ambiguity:

* ()\[sdfljkjlkjsdf

and you won't have the problem.


See "Literal Strings" in Era's Procmail Quick Reference Guide.

         <http://partmaps.org/era/procmail/quickref.html>


or 6.9 in the Procmail Tips:

<http://pm-doc.sourceforge.net/pm-tips.html#beware_leading_backslash>




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