Re: Can not get a filter recognised for one email source

In message <[email protected]>,
	Anne Wilson ([email protected]) wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 February 2011 12:13:34 N.J. Mann wrote:
> > In message <[email protected]>,
> > 
> > 	Anne Wilson ([email protected]) wrote:
> > > I get regular emails from one list, that always end up in my Inbox, no
> > > matter
> > > 
> > > what I put in the recipes.  At the moment these two recipes are in place:
> > > :0
> > > 
> > > * (^From|^To|^Subject): .*(Janome|embroidery|Embroidery|emblibrary|
> > > empressmills)
> > > ${MAILDIR}.INBOX.Sewing/
> > > 
> > > :0
> > > 
> > > * ^From: .*Debra\@emblibrary.com
> > > ${MAILDIR}.INBOX.Sewing/
> > 
> > You have a space character in both recipes which should not be there.
> > Try:
> > 
> >  * (^From|^To|^Subject):.*(Janome|embroidery|Embroidery|emblibrary|
> > 
> > and
> > 
> >  * ^From:.*Debra\@emblibrary.com
> > 
> OK, I've made the change.  Now I wait a few days for the next message :-)
> 
> Funny, though.  All my recipes have a space there, and the others all work.

I cut from my reply the header information you quoted, so here it is
again:

> > > Received: from mail.emblibrary.com ([69.54.45.82]) (envelope-from <[email protected]>)
> > > from: [email protected]
> > > subject: Feather Your Nest - New at Embroidery Library!
> > > X-Envelope-From: [email protected]

With a regexp of
  ^From: .*Debra
it will not match
  from: [email protected]
because it is expecting 'from:' followed by one space, followed by one
'any' character, followed by zero or more 'any' characters, followed by
'Debra', &c.  If you had either  from: Debra  or  from:.*Debra  it would
match.  This is because there is only one character between  from:  and
Debra  and your regexp is expecting at least two.

I hope that helps.


Cheers,
       Nick.
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