On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Earl Hood wrote:
> On July 21, 1999 at 12:13, John Stumbles wrote:
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> > What might be useful would be a way of ANDing and ORing
> > expressions to match on e.g.
> >
> > <MsgExcludeFilter>
> > <!-- implicit OR: exclude if any of following rules matches -->
> > <FilterRule>
> > /^Subject: DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA/m;
> > </FilterRule>
> [snip]
> > <!-- implicit AND: this rule matches if both of following
> > regexps match -->
> > /^From: \w+\@(aol|hotmail)\.com/im
> > /^Subject: .*(money|opportunity|your web)/im
> > </FilterRule>
> > </MsgExcludeFilter>
>
> Oh, the horrors. Just use Perl:
>
> <MsgExcFilter>
> /^Subject: DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA/m ||
> /^Subject: unsubscribe/im ||
> /^Subject: test message/im ||
> (/^From: \w+\@(aol|hotmail)\.com/im &&
> /^Subject: .*(money|opportunity|your web)/im);
> </MsgExcFilter>
Much neater {blush!} :-)
> Basically, you have all of Perl to do what you want. You can declare
> variables, use loops, require modules, etc. Internally, MHonArc wraps
> your code into a function and puts the body of the function (that the
> user defines via MsgExcFilter) into a separate package to avoid
> conflicts with MHonArc internals. $_ is set to a copy of the message
> header, so you can actually modify the $_ in your calculations w/o
> affecting the original header.
That _is_ neat!
BTW thanks, not only for MHonArc, but for responding so promptly and
helpfully to [dum[my|b]] users such as me!
--
John Stumbles [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I.T. Services Centre, University of Reading http://www.rdg.ac.uk/~visstmbl
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