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!
--
David Benfell, LCP
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