Here's a procmail problem I solved. Perhaps it may be of help to others. My objective is to strip the string "[kde-linux]" (no quotes) from the subject line of the mailing list of the same name. My first procmail recipe attempt looked like this: :0 fw: * ^TO_kde-linux | sed -e '/Subject:/s/\[kde-linux\] //g' >> KDE-linux While this stripped off the string just fine, I was getting funny results. Specifically, my mbox N flag was getting falsely set. Examination of the procmail log showed why: procmail: [1048] Sat Sep 22 10:27:13 2001 procmail: Assigning "LOGABSTRACT=all" procmail: No match on "(^((Original-)?(Resent-)?(To|Cc|Bcc)|(X-Envelope|Apparently(-Resent)?)-To):(.*[^-a-zA-Z0-9_.])?)redhat-list" procmail: No match on "(^((Original-)?(Resent-)?(To|Cc|Bcc)|(X-Envelope|Apparently(-Resent)?)-To):(.*[^-a-zA-Z0-9_.])?)sparc-list" procmail: No match on "(^((Original-)?(Resent-)?(To|Cc|Bcc)|(X-Envelope|Apparently(-Resent)?)-To):(.*[^-a-zA-Z0-9_.])?)wine-users" procmail: No match on "(^((Original-)?(Resent-)?(To|Cc|Bcc)|(X-Envelope|Apparently(-Resent)?)-To):(.*[^-a-zA-Z0-9_.])?)mutt" procmail: Match on "(^((Original-)?(Resent-)?(To|Cc|Bcc)|(X-Envelope|Apparently(-Resent)?)-To):(.*[^-a-zA-Z0-9_.])?)kde-linux" procmail: Locking "KDE-linux.lock" procmail: Executing " sed -e '/Subject:/s/\[kde-linux\] //g' >>KDE-linux" procmail: Unlocking "KDE-linux.lock" procmail: No match on "(^((Original-)?(Resent-)?(To|Cc|Bcc)|(X-Envelope|Apparently(-Resent)?)-To):(.*[^-a-zA-Z0-9_.])?)kde-user" procmail: No match on "(^((Original-)?(Resent-)?(To|Cc|Bcc)|(X-Envelope|Apparently(-Resent)?)-To):(.*[^-a-zA-Z0-9_.])?)gnome-list" procmail: No match on "(^((Original-)?(Resent-)?(To|Cc|Bcc)|(X-Envelope|Apparently(-Resent)?)-To):(.*[^-a-zA-Z0-9_.])?)redhat-announce-list" procmail: No match on "(^((Original-)?(Resent-)?(To|Cc|Bcc)|(X-Envelope|Apparently(-Resent)?)-To):(.*[^-a-zA-Z0-9_.])?)redhat-watch-list" procmail: No match on "(^((Original-)?(Resent-)?(To|Cc|Bcc)|(X-Envelope|Apparently(-Resent)?)-To):(.*[^-a-zA-Z0-9_.])?)[EMAIL PROTECTED]" procmail: No match on "(^((Original-)?(Resent-)?(To|Cc|Bcc)|(X-Envelope|Apparently(-Resent)?)-To):(.*[^-a-zA-Z0-9_.])?)linux-security" procmail: No match on "(^((Original-)?(Resent-)?(To|Cc|Bcc)|(X-Envelope|Apparently(-Resent)?)-To):(.*[^-a-zA-Z0-9_.])?)cgochorus" procmail: Locking "/home/john/Mail/mbox.lock" procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/home/john/Mail/mbox" procmail: Opening "/home/john/Mail/mbox" procmail: Acquiring kernel-lock procmail: Unlocking "/home/john/Mail/mbox.lock" procmail: Notified comsat: "john@15295543:/home/john/Mail/mbox" Folder: /home/john/Mail/mbox 1 procmail: Unlocking "/home/john/.lockmail What this log suggested to me was that using the f (consider the pipe a filter) and w (wait for the filter to finish and check its exit code) were not doing what I intended. Rather than simply allowing time for the sed edit to operate, procmail was sending the mail to the correct box, but was continuing to process succeeding recipes, ultimately setting the flag on mbox. I fixed this by removing the flags and the lock (:). New recipe looks like this :0 * ^TO_kde-linux | sed -e '/Subject:/s/\[kde-linux\] //g' >> KDE-linux This solved the problem. -- John P. Verel Norwalk, Connecticut
