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Re: Removing national 'Re:' fields from subject



Hello Per,

 On Tuesday, September 6, 2005 at 12:09:30 PM +0200, Per Carlson wrote:

> reply_regexp="^(re([[0-9]+])*|aw|ad|sv):[ ?]*"

    I use in muttrc:

| # - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
| # Re[2]:      The Bat!
| # Re(2):      Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0)
| # Re^2:
| # AW:         Microsoft Outlook 8.5 Germany
| # SV:         Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Norway
| # Odp:                Microsoft Outlook Express 5 Poland
| # Re&nbsp;:   eGroups-EW/0.82
| # Re :                eGroups-EW/0.82 \240
| # Antwort:    Lotus Notes Release 5.0.5 Germany
| # Antw:               Novell GroupWise 5.5.2 Germany
| # Réf. :      IncrediMail 2001
| # Rép. :      Groupwise 5.5.3.1
| # TR:         Microsoft Outlook 8.5
| # Trans. :    AOL 7.0 for Windows FR
| #
| # Autoreply:  some ch MTA on delivery problems
|
| set reply_regexp="^((\
| [Rr][Eeé][  ]?:|\
| [Rr][Ee] |\
| Re\\[[0-9]+\\]:|\
| Re\\([0-9]+\\):|\
| Re\\^[0-9]+:|\
| AW:|\
| SV:|\
| Odp:|\
| Obj\\.? ?:|\
| Re&nbsp;:|\
| Antw(ort)?:|\
| R[eé]f\\. :|\
| Rép\\. :|\
| R[eé]p\\.?:|\
| F[Ww][Dd]? ?:|\
| T[Rr] ?:|\
| Trans\\. :\
| )[ \t ]*)+"           # The ending range contains 3 chars:
|                       # space, tab, and no-break space \240.
|
| # Autoreply:|\                # removed non aplicable
| # Betr(\\.?|eff):?|\  # removed never seen
| # - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

    Beware there are special characters here and there: Some may not
survive a copy/paste operation.


> subject reads e.g. "Ad: <subject>"

    What means that "Ad:"? Which software of which country produced it?


> the subject will than be "Ad: Re: <subject>", which will be changed to
> "Re: Re: <subject>" by mutt.

    That's because the regexp you used matches only *one* prefix. A good
$reply_regexp must match repeatedly as many prefixes as there are (the
final "+" in mine).


Bye!    Alain.
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