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Re: An 'or' recipe

2017-08-15 02:34:43


On 14/08/17 02:20, John Conover wrote:
#
ws='[    ]*($[   ]+)*'
To be precise:

ws='[   ]*'     # when the  []  contains TAB and SPACE

#
:0
* 2147483647^0 $ ^From:${ws}.*susanmay21@iinet\.net\.au
This line will includes strings like: From:Hello hellosusanmay21(_at_)iinet(_dot_)net(_dot_)au
it is not what Chris asked for.

--udi



* 2147483647^0 $ ^From:${ws}.*billh@marsjourney\.info
* 2147483647^0 $ ^From:${ws}.*mail@cchaseharwood\.com
* 2147483647^0 $ ^From:${ws}.*barry@barryjhutchison\.com
     .
     .
     .
* 2147483647^0 $ ^From:${ws}.*jrobertsonwrites@gmail\.com
$AUTHORS
#

where ${ws} is folded whitespace, (the characters between the block
braces are a tab character, hex 09, followed by a space character, hex
20).

The '.' (period character,) should be escaped, otherwise in a regular
expression, it means any character.

The email addresses you receive the most messages from should be at
the top of the recipe, (as soon as a match is found, procmail stops
the recipe search, and goes directly to the action, i.e., store the
message in ${AUTHORS}.)

     John

Chris writes:
On Sun, 2017-08-13 at 22:40 +0000, John Levine wrote:
In article 
<1502655704(_dot_)21816(_dot_)8(_dot_)camel(_at_)embarqmail(_dot_)com> you 
write:
:0
*^From:susanmay21(_at_)iinet(_dot_)net(_dot_)au |\
^From:billh(_at_)marsjourney(_dot_)info |\
^From:mail(_at_)cchaseharwood(_dot_)com |\
^From:barry(_at_)barryjhutchison(_dot_)com |\
^From:blake(_at_)blakebrivers(_dot_)com |\
^From:help(_at_)bookfunnel(_dot_)com |\
^From:brandon(_at_)brandon-ellis(_dot_)com |\
^From:brian(_at_)brianference(_dot_)com |\
^From:cgockel(_at_)cgockelwrites(_dot_)com |\
^From:contact(_at_)ccekeke(_dot_)com |\
^From:jrobertsonwrites(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com
$AUTHORS
Ugh, see below.

The output to my procmaillog shows
procmail: No match on "^From:susanmay21(_at_)iinet(_dot_)net(_dot_)au 
|^From:billh@m
arsj
ourney.info |^From:mail(_at_)cchaseharwood(_dot_)com |^From:barry@barryjhutchi
son.
com |^From:blake(_at_)blakebrivers(_dot_)com 
|^From:help(_at_)bookfunnel(_dot_)com
|^From:bra
ndon(_at_)brandon-ellis(_dot_)com |^From:brian(_at_)brianference(_dot_)com 
|^From:cgockel
@cgo
ckelwrites.com |^From:contact(_at_)ccekeke(_dot_)com |^From:jrobertsonwrites@g
mail
.com"

Does that look correct?
Yes, it's very rare to have a From: line with no white space or
comment
between the From: and the address.  Try this:

:0
* 
^From:.*(susanmay21(_at_)iinet(_dot_)net(_dot_)au|billh(_at_)marsjourney(_dot_)info|mail@cchase
harwood.com|barry(_at_)barryjhutchison(_dot_)com|blake(_at_)blakebrivers(_dot_)com|help@boo
kfunnel.com|brandon(_at_)brandon-ellis(_dot_)com|brian(_at_)brianference(_dot_)com|cgockel@
cgockelwrites.com|contact(_at_)ccekeke(_dot_)com|jrobertsonwrites(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com)
$AUTHORS

If you do a lot of this, you may need to make LINEBUF bigger.  I have
patterns like this that are over 4000 characters long and they work
fine.

R's,
John

Thanks John, I see now what you did. By putting the addresses in braces
separated by a pipe it's still essentially what I have only neater and
procmail will still go through each address until it gets a hit.

Thanks so much for the help

Chris

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