A question about procmailrc

[Hongwei Li]

> This may be thinking outside the box ...
>
> but do you have any rule earlier in your procmail.rc that is catching the mail
> and storing it to Inbox before the mail reaches this rule?
>
> TD

No.  Those are the top lines in my .procmailrc.

Hongwei

>
> On Friday 03 Feb 2006 16:19, Hongwei Li wrote:
>> > From: "Hongwei Li" <hongwei at wustl.edu>
>> >
>> >>>> On 2/2/2006 12:10 PM, Hongwei Li wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> [snip]
>> >>
>> >> So, the Re: and [Fwd: in the subject line makes the code in procmailrc
>> >> not working.  Why?
>> >
>> > Good question. "It's procmail" comes to mind. It might be this sort of
>> > thing that has people down on procmail.
>> >
>> > ^Subject:.*:*.*is out of the office
>> >
>> > I wonder if that one will work. Zero or more characters, zero or more
>> > colons, another zero or more characters, then the real string.
>> >
>> > One thing that comes to mind with Re: and Fwd: is that the actual message
>> > is placed inside mime quoting. So there might be two Subject lines
>> > present and that confuses things.
>>
>> Thanks for many people's help.  I did extensive tests again and here are
>> the summary.
>>
>> OS: FC3 (I also tested my FC4 system, the situation is the same), sendmail
>> 8.13.1-2
>>
>> Part of my .procmailrc related to this problem:
>>
>> SHELL=/bin/bash
>> PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
>> VERBOSE=off
>> MAILDIR=$HOME/mail
>> SENDMAIL=/usr/sbin/sendmail
>>
>> # test1:
>> :0:
>>
>> * ^Subject:.*is out of the.*
>> $MAILDIR/Junk
>>
>> :0:
>>
>> * ^Subject:.*DELIVERY FAILURE.*
>> $MAILDIR/Junk
>>
>> #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ end ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>> Junk is the "mail folder" under mail/ as Trash -- I tried both, the same.
>>
>> I use the junk emails received earlier for testing, either reply or
>> forward. Here are the results.
>>
>> For the subject line:
>>
>> DELIVERY FAILURE...
>> or
>> Re: DELIVERY FAILURE...
>> or
>> [Fwd: DELIVERY FAILURE...
>>
>> My .procmailrc put the mail in Junk -- working.
>>
>> For the subject line:
>>
>> Aaa Bbb/Cccc Ddd/Eee Fffff is out of the office...
>>
>> The mail goes to Junk -- working normally.
>>
>> For the subject line:
>>
>> Re: Aaa Bbb/Cccc Ddd/Eee Fffff is out of the office...
>> or
>> [Fwd: Aaa Bbb/Cccc Ddd/Eee Fffff is out of the office...
>>
>> the mail goes to inbox -- .procmailrc does not function.
>>
>> I also tried:
>>
>> * ^Subject:.*:.*is out of the.*
>>
>> * ^Subject:.*:*.*is out of the.*
>>
>> etc. The situation remains the same.
>>
>> Conclusion: the part "Aaa Bbb/Cccc Ddd/Eee Fffff" causes procmail not
>> working properly on mails with Re: or [Fwd: at the beginning of the subject
>> line.
>>
>> I know that most of Internet emails don't have that part in the subject
>> line. It is Lotus Notes's bug, but Lotus Notes does not admit it.  Then, we
>> have to deal with it.  Any idea?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Hongwei
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