Hey martin,

Thanks for the reply! I made the changes you suggested but I got the same results.

According to my understanding, #header "from" "person@example.com"# is correct for an exact match.

On 11/30/2016 04:10 AM, Martin Wheldon wrote:

Hi Steven,

I think you may be missing the :contains from the two header lines below:

...

if anyof (header "From" "store-news@amazon.com", envelope :contains "From" "menswearhouse.com", envelope :contains "From" "officedepot.com", envelope :contains "From" "walgreens.com", header "From" "promo@email.newegg.com") { fileinto :create "Promo"; stop;

if anyof (header :contains "From" "store-news@amazon.com", envelope :contains "From" "menswearhouse.com", envelope :contains "From" "officedepot.com", envelope :contains "From" "walgreens.com", header :contains "From" "promo@email.newegg.com") { fileinto :create "Promo"; stop;

Hope that helps

Best Regards

Martin

On 2016-11-30 08:47, Steven Mainor wrote:

...

Hello! I hope you will forgive my ignorance but I have a problem I have been trying to solve for a week and I'm not sure where else to turn.

I'm trying to write a sieve script to sort all of my mail. I was writing this script to replace the one I am currently using but I can't seem to get it to compile. I don't know a lot about sieve or really scripting of any kind and I just can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.

The compiler just puts out a bunch of output that doesn't make sense. like "unexpected character" when I know the character works there because I am already running a script with some of the same lines.

I'm attaching the script with some names and addresses changed and the sieve output to this email.

I would greatly appreciate any help anyone could offer.

Hello Martin,

Wow. That was indeed the problem. I have been staring at that small script for a week and I just couldn't see it. I even had a friend look at it and he couldn't find it either. I feel a bit ridiculous now.

Thanks so much for your help,

Steven

On 11/30/2016 04:48 AM, Martin Wheldon wrote:

Hi Steven,

OK a on closer inspection :)

You are missing a closing double quote on line 59:

...

fileinto :create "Lists/Debain/News;

should be:

fileinto :create "Lists/Debain/News";

Best Regards

Martin

On 2016-11-30 09:30, Steven Mainor wrote:

...

Hey martin,

Thanks for the reply! I made the changes you suggested but I got the same results.

According to my understanding, #header "from" "person@example.com"# is correct for an exact match.

On 11/30/2016 04:10 AM, Martin Wheldon wrote:

...

Hi Steven,

I think you may be missing the :contains from the two header lines below:

...

if anyof (header "From" "store-news@amazon.com", envelope :contains "From" "menswearhouse.com", envelope :contains "From" "officedepot.com", envelope :contains "From" "walgreens.com", header "From" "promo@email.newegg.com") { fileinto :create "Promo"; stop;

if anyof (header :contains "From" "store-news@amazon.com", envelope :contains "From" "menswearhouse.com", envelope :contains "From" "officedepot.com", envelope :contains "From" "walgreens.com", header :contains "From" "promo@email.newegg.com") { fileinto :create "Promo"; stop;

Hope that helps

Best Regards

Martin

On 2016-11-30 08:47, Steven Mainor wrote:

...

Hello! I hope you will forgive my ignorance but I have a problem I have been trying to solve for a week and I'm not sure where else to turn.

I'm trying to write a sieve script to sort all of my mail. I was writing this script to replace the one I am currently using but I can't seem to get it to compile. I don't know a lot about sieve or really scripting of any kind and I just can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.

The compiler just puts out a bunch of output that doesn't make sense. like "unexpected character" when I know the character works there because I am already running a script with some of the same lines.

I'm attaching the script with some names and addresses changed and the sieve output to this email.

I would greatly appreciate any help anyone could offer.

Hey Stephan,

Its okay I should have been able to spot that as many times as I read it. I feel very silly about it.

I just recently started using sieve but already I love how powerful it is.

Thanks, Steven

On November 30, 2016 5:44:55 AM EST, Stephan Bosch <stephan@rename-it.nl> wrote:

Op 30-11-2016 om 11:04 schreef Steven Mainor:

...

Hello Martin,

Wow. That was indeed the problem. I have been staring at that small script for a week and I just couldn't see it. I even had a friend look at it and he couldn't find it either. I feel a bit ridiculous now.

Making the handling/reporting of unterminated quoted strings better has

been on my list for a while now. You're the first to actually complain about it so far. :)

The main problem is that Sieve quoted strings are allowed to contain newlines, which means that a string doesn't necessarily end before the end of the line.

Regards,

Stephan.

...

On 11/30/2016 04:48 AM, Martin Wheldon wrote:

...

Hi Steven,

OK a on closer inspection :)

You are missing a closing double quote on line 59:

...

fileinto :create "Lists/Debain/News;

should be:

fileinto :create "Lists/Debain/News";

Best Regards

Martin

On 2016-11-30 09:30, Steven Mainor wrote:

...

Hey martin,

Thanks for the reply! I made the changes you suggested but I got

the

...

...

...

same results.

According to my understanding, #header "from" "person@example.com"# is correct for an exact match.

On 11/30/2016 04:10 AM, Martin Wheldon wrote:

...

Hi Steven,

I think you may be missing the :contains from the two header lines

...

...

...

...

below:

...

if anyof (header "From" "store-news@amazon.com", envelope :contains "From" "menswearhouse.com", envelope :contains "From" "officedepot.com", envelope :contains "From" "walgreens.com", header "From" "promo@email.newegg.com") { fileinto :create "Promo"; stop;

if anyof (header :contains "From" "store-news@amazon.com", envelope :contains "From" "menswearhouse.com", envelope :contains "From" "officedepot.com", envelope :contains "From" "walgreens.com", header :contains "From" "promo@email.newegg.com") { fileinto :create "Promo"; stop;

Hope that helps

Best Regards

Martin

On 2016-11-30 08:47, Steven Mainor wrote:

...

Hello! I hope you will forgive my ignorance but I have a problem I have been trying to solve for a week and I'm not sure where else to turn.

I'm trying to write a sieve script to sort all of my mail. I was writing this script to replace the one I am currently using but I can't seem to get it to compile. I don't know a lot about sieve or really scripting of any kind and I just can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.

The compiler just puts out a bunch of output that doesn't make sense. like "unexpected character" when I know the character works there because I am already running a script with some of the same lines.

I'm attaching the script with some names and addresses changed and the sieve output to this email.

I would greatly appreciate any help anyone could offer.

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On Wed, 30 Nov 2016, Stephan Bosch wrote:

Op 30-11-2016 om 11:04 schreef Steven Mainor:

The main problem is that Sieve quoted strings are allowed to contain newlines, which means that a string doesn't necessarily end before the end of the line.

perl does display a comment in this case:

(Might be a runaway multi-line "" string starting on line 2)

I find this info very helpful.

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