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Re: procmail rule to filter debian-user



On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 05:44:00AM +0200, s. keeling wrote:
> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>:
> > 
> >  If you aren't wedded to procmail for some other reason, then maybe 
> >  maildrop would be more to your liking, since it has a much simpler 
> >  syntax.  Here's my maildrop rule for filtering d-u mails:
> > 
> >  if ( /^X-Mailing-List:.*<debian-user@lists.debian.org>*/ )
> > {
> >       to "Maildir/.Lists.Debian.User.2008q3"
> > }
> 
> For completeness, that's not much less complex (aka line noise) than
> my procmail rule, and mine splits each debian list into its own mbox,
> and handles newsfroup backscatter:
> 
>   # ------------------------------------
>   # debian-${MATCH}
>   #
>   # The MATCH operator \/ matches whatever the regexp that follows
>   # it matches.
>   #
>   :0
>   * 1^0 ^X\-Mailing\-List:.*debian-\/[a-z.-]*
>   * 1^0 ^Newsgroups:.*debian.\/[a-z.-]*
>   * 1^0 ^Cc: debian-user@lists\.debian\.org
>   {
>     LOG="debian-${MATCH} - "
>     :0:
>     00.debian
>   }

bit lost here.

I understand you pull out the debian mailing list with \/[a-z.-]*
then you log to mailingl ist specific log files with
LOG="debian-${MATCH} - ".  but doesn't this deposit all mails in
00.debian , shouldn't it be 00.debian-${MATCH} ?

> 
> I've been recommending noobs try maildrop first for years.  Procmail
> may be a howitzer where a shiv is needed.  :-)
> 
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