A question about procmailrc

[jdow]

From: "Les Mikesell" <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

> On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 21:31, Hongwei Li wrote:
>> >
>> > Procmail does not recognize the notation [[:space:]] as representing any
>> > whitespace character, so the only solution I found is to replace each space
>> > character with "[ ]+" (without the quotes, of course, and the brackets
>> > actually contain just two characters, <SPACE> and <TAB>).  That makes the
>> > matcher work correctly regardless of how the line gets split.  Yes, it looks
>> >like a mess, but I couldn't find anything else that works 100%.
> 
>  Once
>> the subject line is wrapped, it adds extra char(s) in between "of" and "the",
>> then it does not match.  So, I tried:
>> 
>> * ^Subject:.*is.*out.*of.*the
>> 
>> then, it works for all cases.  But, it seems that it is not always safe. It
>> may filter some normal emails?
> 
> I think you missed the answer in the message you were responding to.
> * ^Subject:.*is[  ]+out[  ]+of[  ]+the
> should be the correct approach, with each of the []'s enclosing one
> space and one tab character.  The [  ]+ expression means match one
> or more (any number more) of the characters enclosed, so there has
> to be one space and it won't matter if more or tabs are introduced
> by the header wrap/indent. 

Actually enclose both a tab and a space to cover both. Some (pathetic)
mailers (like Outlook<whatyoudotopimples> that I use) change tabs to
spaces for presentation.

That said, this crazed cyberunit wonders where the wrap happened in the
first place.

{^_-}