A question about procmailrc

[Don Russell]

On 2/2/2006 7:40 AM, 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?

I think the problem is the trailing * when you're trying to match subject.

If I'm reading this correctly you want a subject that matches on"
  "is out of the office*"

You're using the dots to accept any single character as a word 
separator, but whats the * at the end doing for you?

Don