Re: [Fetchmail-users] Procmail filtering question

[Chris P. <cpo...@em...>]

On Tue, 2020-05-26 at 11:36 +0100, Richard Kimber via Fetchmail-users
wrote:
> I'm running fetchmail -> procmail -> local directories read by Claws
> on
> Ubuntu 20.04
> 
> I'm having some problems filtering email messages by Subject using
> procmail
> 
> "Normal" text Subjects of the form:
> Subject: News on Coronavirus
> are no problem. But there are a lot of messages nowadays that are
> displayed in Claws as:
> 
> Subject: Update from GOV.UK – Coronavirus Statutory Sick Pay ... etc
> 
> but where the subject in the message itself is actually in the form:
> 
> Subject:
> =?UTF-8?Q?Update_from_GOV.UK_=E2=80=93_Coronavirus_Statutory_Sick_P?=
> =?UTF-8?Q?ay_Rebate_Scheme:_service_availability_and_issues?= 
> (the above is all one line)
> 
> Does anyone know if there is some generic way of ensuring that
> messages
> are passed to procmail in the "normal" format so that I may reliably
> and
> straightforwardly construct procmail matching rules (i.e. without
> having to inspect the message source each time)?
> 
> - Richard.

Are any of these helpful?


https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29715013/decode-the-utf8-to-iso-8859-1-mail-subject-to-text-in-procmailrc-file

https://www.mhonarc.org/archive/html/procmail/2015-10/msg00003.html


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