[SOLVED] procmail recipe, match on variable

qrange · 04-12-2016, 08:18 AM

I have a variable 'SUBJECT' in procmail recipe. How to do a match on its value?

Thanks.

business_kid · 04-12-2016, 12:05 PM

Your question is too vague. Procmail doesn't do bash variables, although it utilizes some environment variables. What are you trying to do?

frankbell · 04-12-2016, 09:04 PM

Here is the best procmail tutorial I have found on the innerwebs. It's old, but it's as valid as it ever was.

You use procmail's built-in implementation of regex to specify what you are filtering for and what to do with the results. Here's a sample subject line from my .procmailrc. In this case, all the emails from my LUG include the string "(TWUUG)" (for "Tidewater Unix Users Group") in the subject line, so I filter for that string and place the email in my TWUUG mailbox.

Code:

:0: 
* ^Subject:.*(TWUUG)
TWUUG/

qrange · 04-13-2016, 12:49 AM

thanks all, I've found it:

Code:

VAR1_=Whichever expression you devise
:0:
* VAR1_ ?? regexp
wherever