Re: error 75, error 164 -- SOLVED

On Mon, August 10, 2015 6:57 pm, Sam Varshavchik wrote:

> The exact error message from maildrop:
>
> Syntax error after )
>
> Maildrop is reporting a syntax error after the occurrence of the closing
> parenthesis in the .mailfilter file.
>
> This is getting confusing due to getmail's additional reformatting of the
> error message.

I thank you, Sam.  Your previous message gave me the information I
needed; you said:

> 164 is referring to line #164 in the .mailfilter file.

After staring at line 164 for several minutes, I realized that, after
changing a delivery rule from:

    if ( /(^(To|From):.*vendor) \
       |  (^Subject:.*package)/ \
       )

to

    if ( /^(To|From):.*vendor/ ) \

I forgot to remove the trailing "\".

And, as you just pointed out, the error occurred following the closing
parenthesis.

RLH



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