A question about procmailrc

[jdow]

From: "Hongwei Li" <hongwei at wustl.edu>

>> 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
>>
> 
> The * is a wild char because there are probably other letters after office,
> e.g. . ] or space etc.  I also tried:

"*" is not the wild card.

1) It is not needed at the end of the line.
2) The wild card is ".*"

> :0:
> * ^Subject:.*is out of the office*
> $MAILDIR/Trash
> 
> The situation remains the same -- not working.

Is $MAILDIR defined for your procmail invocation? I tend to use
"$HOME/mail/<foldername>" instead.

{^_^}