A question about procmailrc

[Hongwei Li]

> On 2/2/2006 12:10 PM, Hongwei Li wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
>>
>> The * is a wild char because there are probably other letters after office,
>> e.g. . ] or space etc.  I also tried:
>>
>> :0:
>> * ^Subject:.*is out of the office*
>> $MAILDIR/Trash
>
> * is not a wild card character.
>
> dot is a wild card character.
>
> When dot is followed by splat (.*) that means "zero or more anything"
>
> So, the above says match on "subject:' starting in column 1
> followed by any number of characters (zero or more)
> followed by "is out of the office*"
>
> I'm not certain what that last asterisk does....
> did you try:
> * ^subject:.*is out of the office.*
>
> note the ".*" at the end, and not just "*"
>
> Don
>

Why does this work when the subject line has many other chars after FAILURE:

# block junk mails from msnotes:
:0:
* ^Subject:.*DELIVERY FAILURE*
$MAILDIR/Junk

The real subject is something like:
DELIVERY FAILURE: 550 5.7.1 Message content rejected...

I didn't use .*, but only * above.

Hongwei