On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 04:21:30PM -0500, Josh Huber wrote:
> The reasoning behind this is:
>
> > > * ^To: .*about.com.*
>
> ...often addresses are formatted in a way like:
>
> John Doe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> or
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Doe)
>
> but are not that often just the email address alone.
The above is, as someone else pointed out, obviously wrong. I wasn't
thinking :)
You don't need to match the .* at the end because the pattern doesn't
need to match up to the end of the To line -- it will just match as
much as you've specified, and only fail if something doesn't match.
sorry about that...
So, to summarize, something like this would be good:
* ^To: .*about.com
would work, but if you want to more careful...something like the
following would be better:
* ^TO_about.com
the TO_ is expanded to a nice regex which matches the proper text
before an address. man procmailrc and search for TO_.
ttyl,
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