Re: Procmail not picking up matches from Recipe
On Sat, May 03, 2003 at 02:25:49PM +0000, Clive Menzies wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've posted this to the procmail mailing list but include it here in
> case this is a Debian specific issue?
>
> I have the following setup:
>
> Debian Woody - getmail, mutt, exim, procmail. Mailboxes are maildir
> format AFAIK.
>
> I am a relative newbie to Linux and a novice when it comes to mail
> handling. I've used Nancy
> McGough's guide to setting up procmail and from the logs, procmail
> appears
> to be working, except that it is not picking up matches as I would
> expect.
>
> I've set up two recipes:
>
> :0
> * ^Subject:.*test
> IN-testing/
>
>
> :0
> * ^TO_.*@lists.debian.org
> debian/
>
> Logfile output from: tac Procmail/pmlog|less:
>
> Folder: /var/mail/clive
> 72198
> Subject: Cron <clive@apollo> /usr/bin/getmail
> From clive@apollo Sat May 03 13:50:18 2003
> procmail: Unlocking "/var/mail/clive.lock"
> procmail: Acquiring kernel-lock
> procmail: Opening "/var/mail/clive"
> procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/var/mail/clive"
> procmail: Locking "/var/mail/clive.lock"
> procmail: No match on
> "(^((Original-)?(Resent-)?(To|Cc|Bcc)|(X-Envelope|Apparently
> (-Resent)?)-To):(.*[^-a-zA-Z0-9_.])?).*@lists.debian.org"
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This is apparently from the TO_ macro. I don't understand
the need for the one term excluding alphanumerics. But since
the whole term is optional with ?, I don't see how it can affect
the result.
One simple approach might be to try a simple ^To:.*@lists.debian.org
to see if that works, then building up this formula piece by piece to
see where it starts failing.
> procmail: Assigning "INCLUDERC=/home/clive/Procmail/rc.subscriptions"
> procmail: No match on "^Subject:.*test"
> procmail: Assigning "INCLUDERC=/home/clive/Procmail/rc.testing"
> procmail: Assigning "MAILDIR=/home/clive/Mail"
> procmail: [3673] Sat May 3 13:50:18 2003
>
> I am collecting mail every 10 minutes (cron job) and I've been sending
> test messages with the subject " a test 1 " etc. I'm also receiving
Your recipe for test says the subject must _end_ with 'test'.
> constant posts to debian-user@lists.debian.org and
> debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org but neither the tests nor the debian
> list messages are being picked up by the recipes above; they are just
> dropping into the inbox.
>
> I suspect that I'm missing something really obvious but having gone
> round in circles for the last 24 hours, I need help ;-)
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