Hello all,

Sorry to nag.  Is this not the correct place to submit questions about
maildrop?

On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 01:20:08AM -0800, David Benfell wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I'm trying to use maildrop's lookup function to scan the headers of
> each coming e-mail for a list of e-mail addresses in a file.  It just
> doesn't work.  There are no error messages that I can find anywhere.
> 
> I have the statement coded as:
> 
> if ( lookup( "*", "members-white-list" ) \
>         || lookup ( "*", "additional-startrek-members" ) )
> {
> ...
> }
> 
> The test always fails and the e-mail is filtered according to
> subsequent rules in my .mailfilter file.  This means that e-mail which
> I want put in certain folders lands instead in my suspect folder -- as
> possible spam.
> 
> The files exist in the top level of my home directory.  Maildrop is
> called directly by fetchmail and I've been using it for quite some
> time now.  I recently upgraded to the most recent version.
> 
> The man page describes the first argument as expr, which it defines as
> "any expression" with no further explanation.  I really don't have any
> idea what I'm supposed to put there; thinking it might be a regular
> expression, I decided I wanted that to match on anything in the
> headers.
> 
> Can someone please clue me in on how to make this work?
> 
> Thanks!

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David Benfell, LCP
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