[Dovecot] sieve and pattern matching

[David Newman]

On 9/11/11 8:06 AM, Stephan Bosch wrote:

>> What is the sieve syntax for matching text somewhere in a subject line,
>> but not at the beginning of the line?
>>
>> Background: Multiple machines each send a message with the subject of
>> "<hostname>  operations run" to a mail server. The<hostname>  value is
>> different for each sender.
> 
> If I understand your question correctly, the following is the easiest
> answer:
> 
> if header :matches "subject" "* operations run" {
> }

Bingo! Thanks.

> Right, because that is not how :contains works.
> 
> Check http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5228#section-2.7.1 for more info.

Thanks too for this pointer. I hadn't understood the difference between
:contains and :matches.

dn