Re: procmail recipe

On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 06:02:01 GMT, felmon davis <davisf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| greets!
|
| I want to catch emails that have in the body of the message a line that
| begins with 'from' and does not contain special character, for
| instance doesn't contain '@' or '.' or ';'.
|
| so "from hell" should be caught but not "devil@xxxxxxxx" (for instance).
|
| what I've got (several experiments) is faulty; here's my latest attempt:
|
|:0 B:
| * ^from.*[^\.\@\-].*
|| formail etc etc
|
| so I'm trying to match on strings following 'from ' which don't have
| special chars.
|
| thought I'd ask for advice.


That will match as long as there is one character on the line that is
not in the set '.@;'.

Have you tried:

* ^from[^\.\@\-]*$

That requires every character in the line (after the 'from') to be in
the set "not '.@;'"


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