Hi, At 1:24 PM EDT on April 23 David T-G sent off: > > I would like to have mutt automatically mark certain messages as deleted in > > my > ... > > So how can I do three levels of quoting? Is it possible, and is there a > > way I can avoid it? > > Rather than just escaping your single quotes because you're using single > quotes already, you have to escape them "deeply" enough. Starting from > the inside out, what you want is effectively > > ~b '^SPAM ...' > > and so you pass that pattern to delete-pattern. Now, you can skip the > double quotes, because D takes a "pattern specifier" like ~b and the > pattern itself (which must be quoted if it includes spaces); I just tried > that in my mailbox and no means of wrapping the ~b with the pattern > was acceptable. So now you have > > D~b '^SPAM...' > > and you want to put that in a folder-hook. You must protect the quotes > if they will be interpolated, so you wrap the whole thing in another > layer like > > push "D~b '^SPAM...'" > > to make it work (though that part is untested).
:-P Always test! I had already tried that, and it doesn't work even though it should. Of course, testing is a pain since it means restarting mutt to undo the bad folder-hooks. > Meanwhile, generally the way to escape embedded quotes is to not just > escape the quote but also escape your escape char, since the first pass > over the line (the folder-hook level) will not only remove the outer set > of quotes (doubles above) but also take literally any escaped characters > and get rid of your escaping -- but that's usually too early! It can be It was an escaping problem, although I thought I'd tried that with \\! But noooo! The second \ needs to be escaped so it has to be \\\\! The working hook: folder-hook spam push 'D"~b \"^^SPAM: Hit\\\\! \\\\(1 point\\\\) BODY: Image tag with an ID code to identify you\"\n"' Note the different escaping method for ^. Hopefully some other SpamAssassin users will find this helpful. -- Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. - A. Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary Robert I. Reid | PGP/GPG Keys: http://astro.utoronto.ca/~reid/pgp.html
