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[ILUG] procmail and regexps

[ILUG] procmail and regexps

Conor Daly conor.daly at oceanfree.net
Wed May 23 08:13:14 IST 2001


I've got the following in my .procmailrc

:0:
* ^Subject: [Volunteers]
Lists/volunteers

I'm trying to match on "[Volunteers]" in the mailman list name style.
Trouble is, other messages are triggering this rule and ending up in the
wrong place.  I've decided that the '[' and ']' are becoming a 
"match one of the included chars" type regexp.  Question is, how do I
escape the '[' in a procmail regexp?  Will the folowing work?

:0:
* ^Subject: \[Volunteers\]
Lists/volunteers

I can't test until more mail comes in with that in the subject line.

Conor
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