Re: [PLUG] Sorting incoming mail with procmail recipe
On Sat, 3 Nov 2018, Bryan Linton wrote: One minor nit is that it's usually recommended to escape literal periods because "osgeo.org" will match "osgeo.org" as well as things like "osgeoAorg", "osgeoBorg", "osgeoCorg" etc. Bryan, That's not been an issue over the past couple of decades. The only thing I can think of is that there is a rule above that one which messages from that list hit first, and therefore get put into that file instead of the one you've indicated. Does anything change if you move this rule higher up in the ruleset? I thought of this but hadn't tried changing this rule's place in the list. Just did so now, moving it near the top. Failing that, it appears that procmail has been unmaintained since 2001 and fuzzing efforts have discovered several bugs in it. [1][2] How interesting! I had no idea. I've used procmail since 1997 and never thought about it. Only yesterday I learned that teTeX is still (through 14.2) distributed with Slackware while the author stopped supporting it a very long time ago. I replaced it with TeXLive back then and that's the TeX version starting with the soon-to-be-released 15.0. I'm surprised that procmail wasn't replaced years ago. I've been using "fdm" for... so long I can't even remember. Probably about 10 years or so by now. I can recommend fdm as a good and powerful MDA if you're willing to consider switching to an alternative. [3] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fdm Of course I am. Thanks for your response. Slackbuilds.org has fdm so I'll build, install, and learn how to use it. Best regards, Rich ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
Re: [PLUG] Sorting incoming mail with procmail recipe
On 2018-11-02 13:11:46, Rich Shepard wrote: > I've still not corrected procmail's putting messages from one mail list in > my inbox. This started only a couple of weeks ago and I thought I had it all > worked out, but I don't. > > The messages are addressed To: grass-u...@lists.osgeo.org and the procmail > recipe for this is, > :0: > * ^(From|Cc|To).*osgeo.org > spatial-analyses > > Since procmail processes each description line as a regex the above format > should work for all recipes. And, this format does work for the other mail > lists to which I subscribe. I want to learn why it's not working with this > one. > > All suggestions and ideas are welcome, > Hello, It's been many years since I've used procmail, but on the surface, it appears that that rule should work. One minor nit is that it's usually recommended to escape literal periods because "osgeo.org" will match "osgeo.org" as well as things like "osgeoAorg", "osgeoBorg", "osgeoCorg" etc. So you'd want to escape that period to make: "osgeo\.org" However, that should have no bearing on why the rule isn't matching. The only thing I can think of is that there is a rule above that one which messages from that list hit first, and therefore get put into that file instead of the one you've indicated. Does anything change if you move this rule higher up in the ruleset? Can you run procmail in the foreground with debugging information (or pipe detailed logs to a file) to glean any useful information? Failing that, it appears that procmail has been unmaintained since 2001 and fuzzing efforts have discovered several bugs in it. [1][2] I've been using "fdm" for... so long I can't even remember. Probably about 10 years or so by now. I can recommend fdm as a good and powerful MDA if you're willing to consider switching to an alternative. [3] I know that when one asks a question of "I'm having problems with program_A" and someone responds with "Then use program_B" it may not always be helpful, but given that procmail hasn't been maintained for coming up on close to 20 years now, I thought it was important to at least point out a possible alternative to procmail given the assertation that it contains several bugs. If you do manage to get procmail working, please update the list with the solution. Thanks! [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Procmail [2] https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports=141634350915839=2 [3] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fdm -- Bryan ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
Re: [PLUG] Sorting incoming mail with procmail recipe
Yup. It's been awhile! Rod -- On November 2, 2018 16:22:13 Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 2 Nov 2018, Roderick Anderson wrote: It's been years since I wrote procmail scripts but the thing that jumps out at me is the position of the asterisk. Should it go before the period? Rod, Not if the intention is to ignore multiple characters. Just as you'd write 'rm .*~' to remove all hidden backup files. Regards, Rich ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
Re: [PLUG] Sorting incoming mail with procmail recipe
On Fri, 2 Nov 2018, Roderick Anderson wrote: It's been years since I wrote procmail scripts but the thing that jumps out at me is the position of the asterisk. Should it go before the period? Rod, Not if the intention is to ignore multiple characters. Just as you'd write 'rm .*~' to remove all hidden backup files. Regards, Rich ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
Re: [PLUG] Sorting incoming mail with procmail recipe
Rich, It's been years since I wrote procmail scripts but the thing that jumps out at me is the position of the asterisk. Should it go before the period? Rod -- On 11/2/18 1:11 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: I've still not corrected procmail's putting messages from one mail list in my inbox. This started only a couple of weeks ago and I thought I had it all worked out, but I don't. The messages are addressed To: grass-u...@lists.osgeo.org and the procmail recipe for this is, :0: * ^(From|Cc|To).*osgeo.org spatial-analyses Since procmail processes each description line as a regex the above format should work for all recipes. And, this format does work for the other mail lists to which I subscribe. I want to learn why it's not working with this one. All suggestions and ideas are welcome, Rich ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
