Re: An 'or' recipe

On 14/08/17 01:40, John Levine wrote:
> In article <[email protected]> you write:
>> :0
>> *^From:[email protected] |\
>> ^From:[email protected] |\
>> ^From:[email protected] |\
>> ^From:[email protected] |\
>> ^From:[email protected] |\
>> ^From:[email protected] |\
>> ^From:[email protected] |\
>> ^From:[email protected] |\
>> ^From:[email protected] |\
>> ^From:[email protected] |\
>> ^From:[email protected]
>> $AUTHORS
> Ugh, see below.
>
>> The output to my procmaillog shows
>> procmail: No match on "^From:[email protected] |^From:billh@marsj
>> ourney.info |^From:[email protected] |^From:barry@barryjhutchison.
>> com |^From:[email protected] |^From:[email protected] |^From:bra
>> [email protected] |^From:[email protected] |^From:cgockel@cgo
>> ckelwrites.com |^From:[email protected] |^From:jrobertsonwrites@gmail
>> .com"
>>
>> Does that look correct?
> Yes, it's very rare to have a From: line with no white space or comment
> between the From: and the address.  Try this:
>
> :0
> * ^From:.*([email protected]|[email protected]|mail@cchaseharw=
ood.com|[email protected]|[email protected]|[email protected]=
m|[email protected]|[email protected]|[email protected]=
m|[email protected]|[email protected])
> $AUTHORS

     For my opinion, John Conover gave the best solution (and more easy =

to maintananc).
     Anyway,  in case of using  ".*" you must at least separate the =

string from other chars
     like the following:

* ^From:.*\<(sus.......

--udi




> If you do a lot of this, you may need to make LINEBUF bigger.  I have
> patterns like this that are over 4000 characters long and they work
> fine.
>
> R's,
> John
>
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