Re: anyone knowing procmail very good?

Christoph Höger wrote:
Hi,

I have the following in .procmailrc:
(on a pretty bad administrated solaris box running procmail v3.22
2001/09/10)

#fedora-devel
:0
* ^Sender:.*fedora-devel-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx
* ^TO_fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx
fedora-devel


This works well in nearly all cases except for some announcements (e.g.
the "The fonts SIG irregular status report" mail from today)

Somehow those messages (although they contain Sender:
fedora-devel-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx) slip through that rule.

Why?

Without directly answering that question, I have found that using the
List-Id header is much nicer. And, it can be used to automatically
filter a lot of lists with one rule, rather than having separate rules
for each list. Here's an example to illustrate:

# automagically handle nice standards conforming mailing lists.
# taken from http://spacepants.org/conf/dot.procmailrc,
# where it was attributed to Jeff Waugh
:0
* ^List-Id: +\/.*
{
LISTID=$MATCH

:0
* LISTID ?? ^.*[<]\/[^@>\.]*
lists/$MATCH/

# the ^ * seems ineffective at removing spaces, best to be sure
# the initial pattern does this (e.g.: ^List-Id: +\/.*)
:0
* LISTID ?? ^ *\/[^@\.]*
lists/$MATCH/
}

# try to match List-Post headers
:0
* ^List-Post: *[<]mailto:\/.*
{
LISTPOST=$MATCH

:0
* LISTPOST ?? ^ *\/[^@]*
lists/$MATCH/
}

This handles most of my lists. Only a few that I want filtered into
mailboxes that don't match the name used in the List-Id or that don't
use a List-{Id,Post} header need explicit rules.

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