Re: MIME headers in Procmail

>Then wouldn't the foillowing do the job?  (Sorry, not sure how my mailer 
>will wrap this, so I have to break the line in a way to get sane results.)
>
>:0
>SUBJ=| formail -xsubject |perl -Mencode -ne \
>  'print encode("UTF8",decode("MIME-Header",$_))'
>
>> and then do matches like
>>
>> * SUBJ ?? pattern
>
>as you said?

You're right, that works. (Nobody ever said the procmail documentation
was any good.)  But it still fires up a shell, formail, and a copy of
perl, rather a lot of work, and you'd have to do it separately for
each header line you'd want to match.

R's,
John