[aclug-L] Re: procmail question

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On 15 Dec, Carl D Cravens wrote:

> The .* is part of the pattern matching.  The dot matches *any* character.  
> The * says to match zero or more of the preceding character.  Because it's
> likely that there will be at least a space between the From: and the
> address, you'll have to account for that.  But the .* helps match things
> like...

Ahh...  now i understand...  that makes sense... i was thinking
whoever@xxxxxxxxxxxx was the only thing in the From: field...  forgot
about people's names! : ^ )  is the ^Sender: field different than the
from field?  does Sender contain only the e-mail address?

i don't quite understand the "." tho'...  i understand the "*" because
of ls *blah*.txt things i do, but i don't quite get the dot...  i'm
used to something like 'ls .*blah' showing up files like .1blah,
.sdfblah, etc...

> If you want to delve into the mind-bending insanity that is regular
> expressions (i.e. "pattern matching"), try 'man 7 regex', which describes

heading there as soon as i'm finished changing the icons in Postilion
to be just like NeXTSTEP's Mail.app (obsesive, i know, but i like the
looks)...

> that it might be good to hit the man pages for procmail, procmailrc,
> procmailex (procmail examples), and maybe procmailsc (if you want a full
> view of what procmail can do, though you may not find scoring to be very
> useful).  

been thru the examples in /usr/doc/procmail, but haven't browsed any of
the man pages except 'man procmail'...

thanks a lot, tho'...  give me some reading to do in my spare time! : ^
)

jesse

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