A question about procmailrc

[Anne Wilson]

On Thursday 02 Feb 2006 15:40, Hongwei Li wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a question about .procmailrc.  Recently, our users received a
> lot of junk emails that have the subject like:
>
> Aaa Bbbb Ccc/Xxxx Yyy/Zzzz Dddd/Eeee is out of the office.
>
> I want to set a line in procmailrc to put those emails in folder
> Trash.  I
>
> tried it as:
> :0:
>
> * ^Subject:.*.is.out.of.the.office*
> $MAILDIR/Trash
>
> But, it does not work -- the mail still does to inbox.  I think the
> problem is the part "Aaa Bbbb Ccc/Xxxx Yyy/Zzzz Dddd/Eeee",
> especially the slash /
>
> How to change the code to do the job?
>
Are these maildir or mbox folders?  From the format above it sounds like 
mbox.  Perhaps these sample stanzas from mine will help if they are 
maildir

:0
* ^Subject: .*(Blogger post failed|DBMAIL: delivery failure)
/dev/null

:0
* ^Subject: .*(embroider|cross-stitch)
${MAILDIR}.INBOX.Sewing/

The first consigns messages with either of the two strings to /dev/null, 
the second directs messages to the Sewing sub-folder.

If you are using mbox you will need locking, so ':0' becomes ':0:' and 
you should remove the final slash from the folder name.  HTH

Anne
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