Re: sieve question

On Freitag, 3. Juli 2026 13:35:41 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit Masaru Nomiya wrote:
[...]
> FYI.
> 
> I strongly recommend that you do not use the "Subject" field when
> filing emails.
> 
> In the past, it was standard practice for the Subject of emails sent
> from mailing lists to include the mailing list name. For example, for
> this mailing list, [SLE] was placed at the beginning of the Subject
> field. However, this practice was discontinued as a spam
> countermeasure. In other words, if [SLE] appears at the beginning of
> the Subject field, recipients assume the email is from the mailing
> list and open it.
> 
> Therefore, I recommend using more reliable fields in the email
> headers. I use procmail for 1). virus scanning, 2). spam filtering, and
> 3). email filing of incoming messages, and my configuration looks like
> this;

But my regex does not have to match the complete string, so it doesn't matter, if the string contains anything before the match. VUL-[0-9] could be anywhere.
Or did I misunderstand you or sieve's behavior?


> 
> 	:0 H
> 	* 9876543210^0 ^Return-Path:.*[email protected]
> 	* 9876543210^0 ^To:.*[email protected]
> 	* 9876543210^0 ^From:.*OPENSUSE-UPDATES
> 	* 9876543210^0 ^List-Id:.*updates.lists.opensuse.org
> 	mh/Linux/suse-updates/.
> 
> Best Regards & Good Night.

Bye.
Michael.