Subj : Mailer and front end...
To   : Fzf
From : Shurato
Date : Sun Oct 06 2024 05:21 pm


* In a message originally to Shurato, Fzf said:

 > Re: Mailer and front end... By: Shurato to deon on Thu Oct 03 2024
 > 06:26 am

 >  Sh> It's working! The only problem is that my exec command is not running
 > when
 >  Sh> inbound packets are encountered. It was before, but I broke it some
 > how.

 > When you added the path portion, you added something which will never be a
 > match to any inbound file.

 > Short version - Look at the example below and pay **VERY** close attention
 > to the use of backslashes.  The line wrapping is going to mangle the line:

 > exec "@start /min c:\\ele\\irex\\between.bat"
 > c:\\\\ele\\\\irex\\\\inbound\\\\*.pkt

 > Pointlessly long version - The last parameter here is a regular
 > expression, not a filename mask.  The backslash character is used as an
 > escape character both when reading the configuration file and when
 > performing the regex matching.  So this original parameter in the BinkD
 > config file:

 > c:\\ele\\irex\\inbound\\*.pkt

 > Gets escaped down to this when the config file is parsed:

 > c:\ele\irex\inbound\*.pkt

 > And when escaped the second time during the regex evalution, it becomes
 > this:

 > c:eleirexinbound*.pkt

 > That is a literal string without any wildcards.  You need the additional
 > backslashes so the parameter gets passed to the regex function with the
 > backslashes escaped.

 > \\\\  ->  \\  -> \

 > Also, the regular expressions for the flag/exec parameters haven't been
 > case sensitive for a while now (20+ years) so there's no point accounting
 > for upper and lower case in them...

Thanks, I'll try that!  People insisted on case sensitivity, so I added those
contingencies.

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