[Techtalk] Help with procmail and $MATCH.

[David Merrill]

On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 11:20:01AM +1100, Mary Gardiner wrote:
> Intro:
> 
> procmail is a powerful but complex mail sorting agent, useful for people
> who receive a large volume of mail. Some mail agents (Evolution, Outlook
> and variants) have their own mail sorting that has similar functionality
> to procmail. More information at http://www.procmail.org/
> 
> My procmail problem:
> 
> I have all my Linuxchix mail in one folder, using this procmail rule:
> 
> :0:                     # match everything To: or Cc: an address
> * ^TOlinuxchix          # containing "linuxchix" and place it in
> Tech/Linux/Linuxchix/   # Tech/Linux/Linuxchix/ (/ on the end means use
>                         # the Maildir format).
> 
> I've decided to sort all my Linuxchix lists into different folders, but
> I'm lazy and don't want to write a rule for each list. I'm trying:
> 
> :0
> * ^TOlinuxchix
> {
>         :0:
>         * ^TO\/[A-Za-z]*
>         Tech/Linux/Linuxchix/$MATCH/
> 
>         :0:
>         Tech/Linux/Linuxchix/
> }
> 
> What I *think* this says is "for anything that has 'linuxchix' in the To:
> or Cc: field, first try and match a string of alphanumerics (hopefully
> the list name) and place it in a subfolder using the name of that match,
> otherwise use the default folder."
> 
> But everything is ending up in the default folder.
> 
> Procmail's neutered regexps in which the group must be specified at the
> end of the regular expression aren't helping :(
> 
> Anyone got any ideas?

I just do it like this:

:0:
* ^TO_techtalk
techtalk-l

:0:
* ^TO_grrltalk
grrltalk-l

:0:
* ^TO_issues
issues-l

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