Procmail unexpected behavior (at least to me)

deflin39

I'm new to using procmail, so I wouldn't be surpised if I screwed something.

I have been creating recipes in .procmailrc, and they all have worked but I'm getting strange behaviour for one of the recipes

papal_authority · Veteran Joined: 31 Mar 2004 Posts: 1823 Location: Canada

Does the gentoo-desktop subject contain the phrase gentoo-dev? I'd turn on verbose procmail logging and then sift through the log file. It will tell you what it did and what it didn't match on.
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deflin39 · Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 11:16 pm Post subject:

I've checked the full header, and gentoo-dev doesn't appear anywhere in there, unless I missed it. I added VERBOSE=on to my .procmailrc file, but I can't seem to located the log file. The procmail site says it should be .procmail/log, though I don't see it. I'll keep looking.

deflin39

[edit]I cannot find the friggen log file for procmail. Anyone know where it is?[/edit].
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papal_authority · Veteran Joined: 31 Mar 2004 Posts: 1823 Location: Canada

Maybe set LOGFILE=/full/path/to/where/you/want/the/logfile.
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deflin39 · Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 11:35 pm Post subject:

deflin39 · Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2005 9:07 am Post subject:

OK here is some output from the log file

deflin39 · Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2005 12:52 am Post subject:

Ok, just an update.

I removed the gentoo-dev entry in .procmailrc. By doing this, email to gentoo-desktop finally went to the correct folder, and gentoo-dev mail went to my default inbox. So I completely removed the gentoo-dev entry and remade it again, just in case vi added some strange character I wasn't accounting for. The problem still persist. :cry:

I guess I could put the gentoo-dev entry below the gentoo-desktop entry, but that would be a hack and I still don't understand what the problem is. If anyone has any ideas, I would be grateful.

deflin39
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papal_authority · Veteran Joined: 31 Mar 2004 Posts: 1823 Location: Canada

Hah figured it out. It's because it should read: "^Subject:.*gentoo-dev.*" not "^Subject:.*gentoo-dev*". See the * means zero or more of the preceding character so in effect you're asking it to match "^Subject:.*gentoo-de" plus zero or more v's. Thus the extra preceding dot is needed for the last asterisk.
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deflin39 · Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2005 1:45 am Post subject:

Sweet!!!

RegExp are not one of my strong points, but I pledge to work on it. Thanks for you help papal! Now I can get some sleep...

deflin39
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