A question about procmailrc

[jdow]

From: "Hongwei Li" <hongwei at wustl.edu>

>> 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...

Try three tests:
Subject:.*is out of
Subject: Re:.*is out of
Subject: \[Fwd:.*is out of

(Make sure the Lotus Notes message really uses a space character between
the colon and its spurious headers.)

{^_^}