On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 04:37:40AM +0100, Francesco Ariis wrote: > On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 02:28:29PM -0600, David Champion wrote: > > Francesco is right, this should work. ~f a@b will match a@b whether it's > > the actual address or inside the "name" portion. > > > > [..] > > > > So ~e [email protected] won't work because Sender: does not have your > > target pattern, but ~f [email protected] should. If it does not there's > > something else wrong. > > Indeed indeed. I sent myself an email and (once it arrived) went to > /mail/cur/ to modify its from header, which now is: > > From: "phoney bologna [email protected] [bademails]" > <[email protected]> > > <limit>~f [email protected] works, as does > score "~f [email protected]" -40
This doesn't work here (I didn't try limit). So I have no idea what to think. > I stress that scoring *additive*, so if you have a +100 rule that matches > (among others) [email protected], that will offset your malus > provision. Yes, I realize that so I changed all my scores to =-100 to make sure this wasn't happening. Anyway besides setting a default score to 1 so nobody gets deleted but offenders, there are no positive scores in the scorefile. > > The correct way to debug this is probably: > > 1. try at first a simple limit (type l and then your mail > address) to check whether matching works Not familiar with limit but I will look at it now, thanks. /jl -- ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) Powered by Lemote Fuloong against HTML e-mail X Loongson MIPS and OpenBSD and proprietary / \ http://www.mutt.org attachments / \ Code Blue or Go Home! Encrypted email preferred PGP Key 2048R/DA65BC04
