Re: Re[2]: Scrip Help

[Tim Walberg <twalberg@mindspring.com>]

On 01/05/2006 08:31 +0600, Kev wrote:
>>	
>>	On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 07:25:25 -0800 (PST)
>>	"Scott Taylor" <scott@dctchambers.com> wrote:
>>	
>>	> 
>>	> Kev said:
>>	> > im seting up a scrip pipe for postfix + spamassassin as a filter in
>>	> > postfix.
>>	> >
>>	> > this really works how ever i have a prb with the FWD depending on the
>>	> > recipent, can any one help me with this line
>>	> >
>>	> > if $EGREP -q -i "To: *kav@domain.net*" < /var/tempfs/out.$$
>>	> >
>>	> > how can i tell egrep to check for any format of To: in the email heder.
>>	> 
>>	> You did.  Perhaps something else in your query is blocking you, or maybe
>>	> you just want grep, it doesn't look like you are using "Extended Regex"
>>	> here.
>>	> 
>>	> 'man grep' might be some more help to you.
>>	
>>	yeah i got it to work with the way i have put there, but the prb is that
>>	email addred comes as many formats like 
>>	
>>	To: "Kev" <kev@domain.net>
>>	To: Kev <kev@domain.net>
>>	To: <kev@domain.net>
>>	To: <kev@domain.net> "Kev"
>>	
>>	etc etc.... so my above way dont work :(

Something like:

	$EGREP -q -i '^To:.*<kav@domain.net>'

should do the job - note the couple of differences:

	^ to match only at beginning of line
	.* to match any number of any character other than newline
		between To: and the e-mail address enclosed in brackets

One subtle (?) bug in your original is that it says, roughly, "match
the literal string "To:" followed by zero or more space characters
followed by the literal string "kav@domain.ne" followed by zero or
more 't' characters. In other words, "To:kav@domain.ne" would match,
as would "To:          kav@domain.nettttttttttttttttt"...

				tw



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