procmail syntax - variable substitution

[jamie]

hi,

just fine-tuning a generic vacation message which could be used for all users on our server.

i find i am unable to substitute my email address for $MYEMAIL in the following condition:

* ^[e-mail]

i think i have tried every combination.

can anyone point me in the right direction please?

thanks

[bird]

MYEMAIL="[e-mail]"

...

* ^TO${MYEMAIL}

The curly braces {...} are not technically necessary in all cases, but they help a lot to avoid ambiguous situations. I just use them by principle.

[jamie]

hi bird,

thanks for reply, but unfortunately that doesn't seem to work?

i had already tried

* ^TO{$MYEMAIL}

and have now tried your version, but it is still not substituting. i have to manually spell out my email address for it to work.

hmmm...

[bird]

Oh wait, you need to activate variable substitution for that line. This is done by adding another $ before the pattern.

* $ ^TO${MYEMAIL}

[jamie]

thank you bird!

had to wait until ww was back online before i could implement that ;)

much obliged