Procmail filter question

I appreciate the tip. However, I don't know how to do that with Procmail filters. It is supposed to work like grep. In grep this: "\bname" (including the quotes) will find the line I want. In the Procmail filters \bname (no quotes) does not find the line.

Is there something in the syntax I am not understanding so that Procmail will find that line with the leading tab?

Alan

At 06:00 PM 5/21/02 -0500, you wrote:
I think you need to look for the whitespace prior to 'name'.
That is, perhaps, the reason your "^" did not work?


On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 06:44:03PM -0400, alandd@mindspring.com wrote:
The server is running Procmail v3.10. I have a recipe in .procmailrc that drops emails with certain attachments:

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:0 B
* ^Content.*(file)?name=.*\.(hta|vbs|exe|scr|pif|lnk|bat|com)
/dev/null
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This catches most of them, but it misses the following email because "name=" is on a new line. That's fine, but there's also a tab before "name=".

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 Subject: A special  funny website
 Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
     boundary=C2d7M23S9A7E2ydC8z8944PN8KdX73HX028b
 Date: 21 May 2002 10:27:42 -0400

--C2d7M23S9A7E2ydC8z8944PN8KdX73HX028b
Content-Type: text/html;
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

...

 --C2d7M23S9A7E2ydC8z8944PN8KdX73HX028b
 Content-Type: application/octet-stream;
     name=FACE.scr
 Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
 Content-ID: <OOPXO49t4jYs9h>

TVqQAAMAAAAEAAAA//8AALgAAAAAAAAAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAA2AAAAA4fug4AtAnNIbgBTM0hVGhpcyBwcm9ncmFtIGNhbm5vdCBiZSBydW4gaW4g
CjwvQk9EWT4NCjwvSFRNTD4NCj==
--C2d7M23S9A7E2ydC8z8944PN8KdX73HX028b--

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I've tried to filter it out:

* ^name=.*\.(hta|vbs|exe|scr|pif|lnk|bat|com)
* ^\bname=.*\.(hta|vbs|exe|scr|pif|lnk|bat|com)
* \bname=.*\.(hta|vbs|exe|scr|pif|lnk|bat|com)
* "\bname=.*\.(hta|vbs|exe|scr|pif|lnk|bat|com)"

But none of these work. Any ideas?

Alan