On 19 Feb 2002, Patrick Kirk wrote: > On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 09:39, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > Can anyone suggest a procmail filter that will catch at least some of > > the From: \123\456\789\........... stuff? > > > > (I mean what you see for the From: and Subject: lines with > > ?????????????????) > > > Thats where the text is in Chinese or Korean or some such character > set. Just set procmail to block that character set and you'll never see > them again. Unless of course you do speak Korean in which case its back > to the drawing board ;-) >
I know that's what it is but my question is: how do I block it? Actually I made a mistake in posting the filter I've tried; it's actually: :0: * ^Subject:.*[\0-9\][\0-9\][\0-9\][\0-9\][\0-9\] junkfile >From my reading of the regexp docs I thught this should catch all long number sequences enclosed in \, but I don't think it's right. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux GNU/Debian (Windows-free zone) For electronic books on the Assassins and on homeopathy, skeptical essays, and over 150 book reviews, go to: http://www.acampbell.org.uk/ Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. [Carl Sagan]
