sieve - find in header

Stephan Bosch stephan at rename-it.nl
Tue Sep 6 13:45:19 UTC 2016



Op 6-9-2016 om 15:25 schreef Hajo Locke:
> Hello list,
>
> have a problem with sieve script. I want to perform an action if an 
> arbitrary headerline contains a defined string.
> I tried with regex:
>
> if header :regex [".*"] ["searchstri.*"]
> {
>     fileinto "junk";
> }
>
> This is not working because regex is only used in 2nd argument 
> ["searchstri.*"]
> In 1st argument [".*"] no regex is used, sieve expects just plain string.
> Something like this would work, if "x-myheader" contains "searchstring":
> if header :regex ["x-myheader"] ["searchstri.*"]....
>
> How to solve this case and find a string in arbitrary/unknown headerline?

I don't think the Sieve language supports a test like that at this time.

Regards,

Stephan.



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