Re: Matching literal dot in To

On 2015-06-13 12:22, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> On 12.06.15 21:14, Moby wrote:

>> Thanks Lukreme and Chuck.
>> Chuck, the goal is to put the message in a particular folder if ~any~
>> of the addresses in the To field is of the form [email protected].
>
> Then how close does something like this take us?:
>
>     :0
>     * ? formail -X"To:" | egrep '\<[^.@]+\.[^.@]+@'
>     particular_folder
>
> That is agnostic about the number of addresses, triggering on any one or
> more. Not tried - only run through the wetware simulator, so might need
> a whack on a corner.

Why call external processes like formail and egrep?

Try this:

:0
* ^To:.*\<[^.@]+@
particular_folder

or use a macro:

:0
* ^TO_.*\<[^.@]+@
particular_folder


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Greetings, Ruud