[Techtalk] (solved) procmail recipe wont work

[Conor Daly]

On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:03:48AM +0000 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Conor Daly thought:
> So, I'm trying to put together a procmail recipe to forward a particular
> source to a list.  The source address is:
> 
> first.last+marker at example.com
> 
> where first.last at example.com is the address our mailserver forwards to my
> account.  The '+marker' bit is to distinguish a particular sender for
> procmail.  The current recipe is:
> 
> * ^TOfirst.last+marker at example.com
 
So somebody said:
>> The + has special meaning for regexes, either escape it or replace it
>> with .
>>       Paul

The very thing.

* ^TOfirst.last\+marker at example.com

worked.

Conor
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