Good point, thank you! I'm rather new to ProcMail.
Can this be done:?
- No text = ignore,
- Text that includes 'mary' = ignore,
- Text NOT including 'mary' = action.
Andrew
On 16 Sep 2010, at 03:02 PM, PSE-L(_at_)mail(_dot_)professional(_dot_)org
(Professional Software Engineering) wrote:
At 01:13 2010-09-16, ProcMail wrote:
Hi
It's only for 2 email addresses.
Is there specific text you _expect_? I've got it that you want to fail if
anything other than mary appears, but "mary johnson" "mary" "mary j" "m
johnson" (and others) would all be legit. People type all sort of nonsense
into their addressbooks, and their MUAs yank that out automatically for the
text description of the address.
# this matches for the address, then checks to see if the word mary appears
# in a context where it is NOT immediately followed by an @ (i.e. won't match
# the token in the local portion of the email address itself). This doesn't
# require an external process (which grep would).
:0
* ^To:(_dot_)*mary(_at_)domain\(_dot_)tld
* ! ^To:.*\<mary[^(_at_)]
{
# textual name violates criteria
}
of course, this would chuff up if the mary is part of some other text - the
exclusionary character class could be expanded to exclude letters and
numbers, etc). "st. mary's college" for example.
Bear in mind that such simplistic matches will run into issues with encoded
text.
Your criteria doesn't specify how things should be handled if there's _no_
name text (which really should be a valid case, IMO).
---
Sean B. Straw / Professional Software Engineering
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