[Tickets #8875] metacharacters in blacklisted address not escaped in procmail script

Thu Feb 18 15:52:23 UTC 2010

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Ticket URL: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/8875
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  Ticket             | 8875
  Created By         | pas at unh.edu
  Summary            | metacharacters in blacklisted address not escaped in
                     | procmail script
  Queue              | Ingo
  Version            | 1.2.3
  Type               | Bug
  State              | Unconfirmed
  Priority           | 1. Low
  Milestone          |
  Patch              |
  Owners             |
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pas at unh.edu (2010-02-18 10:52) wrote:

Some of our users blacklist myspace addresses of the form

     03|i|0iic90ae|23lma|_|wl.sr1w at message.myspace.com

In the resulting .procmailrc:

     :0
     * ^From:(.*\<)?03|i|mgcga08e|brja|_|wl\.sr1w at message\.myspace\.com
     /dev/null

They wind up not getting any mail at all. I am just guessing, but  
maybe the | characters should be escaped?