Re[4]: Scrip Help

[Kev <savage-garden@hanikamail.com>]

On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 21:18:54 -0600
Tim Walberg <twalberg@mindspring.com> wrote:

> 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"...
> 

Thanks a lot, i will test this and let u know....