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List:       procmail
Subject:    Re: Message-Id: regexp
From:       Gregory Sutter <gsutter () pobox ! com>
Date:       1998-08-27 4:07:04
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On Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 09:30:56PM -0500, Philip Guenther wrote:
> Gregory Sutter <gsutter@pobox.com> writes:
> ...
> >Philip, I have a question about this big beauty.  In the regexp, you have
> >three servings of bracket salad: [-!#-'*+/-9=?A-Z^-~]  Should the
> >asterisks within these be escaped with backslashes: [-!#-'\*+/-9=?A-Z^-~]
> 
> Nope.  The only characters special inside of brackets are ^-] and probably
> newline, though I haven't checked it.  [*] matches a literal asterisk.

Thanks, and thanks David too. :)

> >I had a bad match with this recipe on this:
> >Message-ID: <35e460cbText Review*@m400gw.wiley.com>
> 
> The asterisk is fine.  That message-id was rejected because of the space.

Damn X-400 gateways.  They still have to follow Internet RFCs if they 
want their messages to go over the Internet!

Greg
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