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

At 08:18 2011-02-16, N.J. Mann wrote:
> > It also does
> > not "ignore" headers that don't conform to the
> > first-character-capitalized format.
>
>I never claimed it did.

Somebody did, and the poor OP here is getting bad advice, paramount 
being the syntax of a regexp.  Tracking down things which have no 
relationship to their problem won't help them.

OP:

Consider setting up a sandbox (see my .sig for a downloadable one), 
then throw a saved copy of your message at it (or the whole inbox):

         formail -s procmail -m sandbox.rc < mailbox.mbx

You can then evaluate the verbose sandbox.log to see what it has to 
say.  Note that the standard procmail delivery summary will show the 
envelope from (not the From:) and the Subject of the message, but 
there is header extraction of some things (including Subject and 
From:) to variables, and the log will show you just what is really 
beeing seen on the message.

I really suspect you're seeing sub-messages within a digest, so it's 
the DIGEST WRAPPER you need to write a recipe for.  This is quite 
possibly why the message has lowercase 'header' fields (though most 
digests I've ever seen don't - but then I don't subscribe to lists in 
digest mode - perhaps these are webforum-to-email generated messages?).


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