[vox-tech] procmail question

[Matt Roper]

I think it would be better to write your rule like this:

    :0 c
    * !^From.*MAILER-DAEMON
    * !^From.*nobody@spamcop.net
    * !^From.*vox.*-admin
    * !^Subject.*BOUNCE vox
    backup

Each rule is AND'd together, so a message will only go into your backup
folder if each rule is true.  You don't want to OR the conditions
together because then the only messages you are excluding from your
backup folder are the ones that fail all the tests.


Matt

On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 11:18:38AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> i have a few questions about procmail.  if you know any of them,
> please feel free to jump in:
> 
>    # make a backup
>    :0 c
>    * ! ^From.*MAILER-DAEMON       |  # don't backup error msgs
>      ! ^From.*nobody@spamcop.net  |  # don't backup spamcop msgs
>      ! ^From.*vox.*-admin         |  # don't backup admin requests
>      ! ^Subject.*BOUNCE vox          # don't backup bounce msgs
>    backup
> 
> 
> are lines continued automatically, or do i need an escape character
> like "\"?
> 
> can comments go between conditionals like this?
> 
> any problems anyone can see with this?
> 
> thanks, pete
> 
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