[ILUG] procmail and regexps

[Conor Daly]

On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 08:38:51AM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Steffen Higel thought:
> On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 11:10:10PM +0100, Conor Daly articulated:
> > 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?
> 
> It should, but is there anything stopping you from sending a mail to
> yourself with [whatever] in the subject?

Yeah, it gets snagged by my "Mail to self" filter before that.  Maybe I'l
turn that off and see what happens.

Conor
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