Re: procmail recipe not working

[dman <dsh8290@rit.edu>]

On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 01:17:30PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote:
| dman wrote:
...
| > :0
| > * ^From.*8102239.2[67]@reply.pm0.net
| > /dev/null
| > 
| > However the messages keep getting past these recipes and to my
| > list-matching recipe.
| 
| Those look like they ought to work. One thing, though I doubt it's
| causing your problem, is that you ought to be escaping literal dots with
| a backslash. So the first recipe should look like this:

Right, but I figured it was close enough (what's the chance a
legitimate address will match that re because of the dots?) and easier
to copy-n-paste from the mails.

| Verbose logging may help to figure out what's going on.

I hope.  For the frequency with which the messages arrive, I haven't
seen one in my log yet (since I started it logging).

-D

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