Re: [TCLUG:9185] procmail

["Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@visi.com>]

The addresses must look something like this:

*From:.*(user@x.org|user2@y.org|user3@z.org).*

So, you could use a perl script to put it in that format instead of using
'cat'.

Tom Veldhouse
veldy@visi.com

----- Original Message -----
From: Luke Francl <fran0382@tc.umn.edu>
To: <tclug-list@mn-linux.org>
Sent: Friday, October 15, 1999 1:14 PM
Subject: Re: [TCLUG:9185] procmail


> While we're on the subject of procmail, I've got a question for the
> experts.
>
> I'd like to set up a filter which redirects mail from a list of people to
> a folder. Here's what I have now:
>
>    # Work filter -- $HOME/.procmail/.co-workers contains the names of
coworkers
>    # to match against.
>
>    COWORKERS=`cat $HOME/.procmail/.co-workers`
>
>    :0:
>    * $^From.*${COWORKERS}
>    INBOX.work
>
> I thought this would work, but when there is more than one email address
> in COWORKERS, it doesn't.
>
> Does anyone know how I could do this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Luke
>
>
>
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