Procmail Regex

[Linux Geeks]

Hi All,

Right now I have a global account which reside in my ISP's server, and
I twice a day get all my emails using fetchmail + cron and delivered
them to each mailbox using procmail.

Right now I'm using an abundant rules to check agains 'To' and
'Received' header from incoming mails as shown below

====================
:0
* ^To:[e-mail]
! [e-mail]

:0
* ^Received:[e-mail]
! [e-mail]

:0
* ^To:[e-mail]
! [e-mail]

:0
* ^Received:[e-mail]
! [e-mail]

.
.
.
.
====================

This rule is very inefficient. As I create new user, I have to add two
additional rule entry. Is there any regex alternative to my problem  ?

Thanks,

Dino

[Anne Wilson]

On Friday 11 May 2007, Linux Geeks wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Right now I have a global account which reside in my ISP's server, and
> I twice a day get all my emails using fetchmail + cron and delivered
> them to each mailbox using procmail.
>
> Right now I'm using an abundant rules to check agains 'To' and
> 'Received' header from incoming mails as shown below
>
> ====================
>
> :0
> ^To:[e-mail]
>
> ! [e-mail]
>
> :0
> ^Received:[e-mail]
>
> ! [e-mail]
> ====================
>
> This rule is very inefficient. As I create new user, I have to add two
> additional rule entry. Is there any regex alternative to my problem  ?

Try

:0
* (^To|^Received):[e-mail]
 ! [e-mail]

Anne

[Anne Wilson]

On Friday 11 May 2007, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Friday 11 May 2007, Linux Geeks wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Right now I have a global account which reside in my ISP's server, and
> > I twice a day get all my emails using fetchmail + cron and delivered
> > them to each mailbox using procmail.
> >
> > Right now I'm using an abundant rules to check agains 'To' and
> > 'Received' header from incoming mails as shown below
> >
> > ====================
> >
> > :0
> > ^To:[e-mail]
> >
> > ! [e-mail]
> >
> > :0
> > ^Received:[e-mail]
> >
> > ! [e-mail]
> >
> > ====================
> >
> > This rule is very inefficient. As I create new user, I have to add two
> > additional rule entry. Is there any regex alternative to my problem  ?
>
> Try
>
> :0
> (^To|^Received):[e-mail]
>
> ! [e-mail]

This may be a mixture of methods, so may not work.  I use structures like

${MAILDIR}.INBOX.Design/

in the destination line.

Anne

[Linux Geeks]

On 5/11/07, Anne Wilson  wrote:
> Try
>
> :0
> (^To|^Received):[e-mail]
>
> ! [e-mail]
>
> Anne

Hi Anne,

Thanks... it's working :)

I try to simplify & generalize the rule again using...

============================
:0
* (^To|^Received):.+/[e-mail]
! $MATCH
============================

and it got send also, but when I check my mail queue... it also send
to another domain's emails that enlisted also in "To", like
[e-mail], [e-mail]. Since I only want it to send to
[e-mail] it is failing. What's wrong with the MATCH variable &
it's rule ?

[Anne Wilson]

On Friday 11 May 2007, Linux Geeks wrote:
> On 5/11/07, Anne Wilson  wrote:
> > Try
> >
> > :0
> > (^To|^Received):[e-mail]
> >
> > ! [e-mail]
> >
> > Anne
>
> Hi Anne,
>
> Thanks... it's working :)
>
> I try to simplify & generalize the rule again using...
>
> ============================
>
> :0
> (^To|^Received):.+/[e-mail]
> ! $MATCH
>
> and it got send also, but when I check my mail queue... it also send
> to another domain's emails that enlisted also in "To", like
> [e-mail], [e-mail]. Since I only want it to send to
> [e-mail] it is failing. What's wrong with the MATCH variable &
> it's rule ?

Would you be prepared to send me the recipe, unchanged, off-list.  Maybe if I 
could look at the whole I'd be able to spot the problem.

Anne