Hi,

I'm using maildrop as delivery agent in a qmail system.

I'm using the pattern matching to identify messages from mailing lists and
auto-file them in the appropriate folders.

I'm using bincimap with IMAPDir depots so I can have folder names with the "." character in them but they need to be escaped, e.g. "courier-maildrop@lists\.sourceforge\.net".

Here are some relevant lines from mailfilter.

First I look for a mailing list:

if ( /^List-Post: <mailto:![0-9A-Za-z_\-]*!@.*!>/ \ || /^Delivered-To: mailing list ![0-9A-Za-z_\-]*!@.*/ \ || /^X-Mailing-List:[:space:]![0-9A-Za-z_\-]*!@.*/ ) {

Then construct the list name from the matched vars and deliver to the maildir:

exception { LIST_FOLDER_NAME=${MATCH2}${MATCH3} to "${VMAILDIR}/${LISTS}.${LIST_FOLDER}/" }

(I've removed the code that creates the maildir if it doesn't already exist)

Now, what I need to do is to replace the "." characters in LIST_FOLDER_NAME with
"\."

First I tried using sed as follows:

LIST_FOLDER_NAME=`echo ${MATCH2}${MATCH3} | sed 's/\./\\\./g'`

This works from the command prompt:

# echo x.y.z | sed 's/\./\\\./g' x\.y\.z

...but doesn't do the business in maildrop.

Then I stumbled across the "escape" function. Brilliant! Just what I want! So I tried this:

LIST_FOLDER_NAME=escape(${MATCH2}${MATCH3})

This didn't work either; the list address remained unchanged.

Any idea how I can get this to work?

Thanks,

R.