A question about procmailrc

[Tony Dietrich]

This may be thinking outside the box ...

but do you have any rule earlier in your procmail.rc that is catching the mail 
and storing it to Inbox before the mail reaches this rule?

TD

On Friday 03 Feb 2006 16:19, Hongwei Li wrote:
> > From: "Hongwei Li" <hongwei at wustl.edu>
> >
> >>>> On 2/2/2006 12:10 PM, Hongwei Li wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> [snip]
> >>
> >> So, the Re: and [Fwd: in the subject line makes the code in procmailrc
> >> not working.  Why?
> >
> > Good question. "It's procmail" comes to mind. It might be this sort of
> > thing that has people down on procmail.
> >
> > ^Subject:.*:*.*is out of the office
> >
> > I wonder if that one will work. Zero or more characters, zero or more
> > colons, another zero or more characters, then the real string.
> >
> > One thing that comes to mind with Re: and Fwd: is that the actual message
> > is placed inside mime quoting. So there might be two Subject lines
> > present and that confuses things.
>
> Thanks for many people's help.  I did extensive tests again and here are
> the summary.
>
> OS: FC3 (I also tested my FC4 system, the situation is the same), sendmail
> 8.13.1-2
>
> Part of my .procmailrc related to this problem:
>
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
> VERBOSE=off
> MAILDIR=$HOME/mail
> SENDMAIL=/usr/sbin/sendmail
>
> # test1:
> :0:
>
> * ^Subject:.*is out of the.*
> $MAILDIR/Junk
>
> :0:
>
> * ^Subject:.*DELIVERY FAILURE.*
> $MAILDIR/Junk
>
> #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ end ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Junk is the "mail folder" under mail/ as Trash -- I tried both, the same.
>
> I use the junk emails received earlier for testing, either reply or
> forward. Here are the results.
>
> For the subject line:
>
> DELIVERY FAILURE...
> or
> Re: DELIVERY FAILURE...
> or
> [Fwd: DELIVERY FAILURE...
>
> My .procmailrc put the mail in Junk -- working.
>
> For the subject line:
>
> Aaa Bbb/Cccc Ddd/Eee Fffff is out of the office...
>
> The mail goes to Junk -- working normally.
>
> For the subject line:
>
> Re: Aaa Bbb/Cccc Ddd/Eee Fffff is out of the office...
> or
> [Fwd: Aaa Bbb/Cccc Ddd/Eee Fffff is out of the office...
>
> the mail goes to inbox -- .procmailrc does not function.
>
> I also tried:
>
> * ^Subject:.*:.*is out of the.*
>
> * ^Subject:.*:*.*is out of the.*
>
> etc. The situation remains the same.
>
> Conclusion: the part "Aaa Bbb/Cccc Ddd/Eee Fffff" causes procmail not
> working properly on mails with Re: or [Fwd: at the beginning of the subject
> line.
>
> I know that most of Internet emails don't have that part in the subject
> line. It is Lotus Notes's bug, but Lotus Notes does not admit it.  Then, we
> have to deal with it.  Any idea?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Hongwei