[ingo] * $^To:.* in Vacation Procmail Script

[Norbert Kottmann]

Hi Nancy

Am 13.01.2006 um 11:03 schrieb NM Public:

> Sur 2006-01-11, Norbert Kottmann skribis:
>>
>> I am wondering why the procmail script of the vacation filter uses
>> the rule:
>>
>> * $^To:.*address at domain.tld
>>
>> instead of:
>>
>> * $^To: address at domain.tld
>>
>> We had some problems with users which have two e-mail addresses with
>> the same ending:
>>
>> i.e. "firstname.lastname at domain.tld" and "lastname at domain.tld"
>>
>> The users activated their vacation rule with both adresses (as it
>> should be) and ingo writes two procmail rules for each e-mail  
>> address.
>>
>> The result is, that e-mails to the "firstname.lastname at domain.tld"
>> address are answered with two vacation messages because both rules "*
>> $^To:.*lastname at domain.tld" and "*
>> $^To:.*firstname.lastname at domain.tld" are matching.
>
> This is a common Procmail problem and I discuss it on my Procmail
> Quick Start in this section:
>
>   <http://www.ii.com/internet/robots/procmail/qs/#RCPTexample>
>
> The relevant part is bullet 2 in the Tips of that section. A
> Procmail condition like this should solve the problem:
>
>   * ^To:(.*\<)?address at domain.tld

Great site. Your solution works prefect. Thanks a lot.

Norbert
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