Procmail filter question

[der.hans]

Am 22. May, 2002 schwätzte alandd@mindspring.com so:

> 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?

Look at the manpages for procmailrc and procmailex. You shouldn't need to
detect the whitespace at the beginning, though.

* name=.*\.(your|list|of|extentions)

I'd think that would work, but that might be too vague.

I was hoping '[:space:]' would work, but didn't see anything like that in
the manpages.

Did you try '\t' for tab rather than '\b' for word break?

There's probably a procmail howto on the LDP.

ciao,

der.hans
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