[imapfilter-devel] Double-quote in query string?

[Lefteris Chatzibarbas]

On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 06:35:37PM -0500, David DeSimone wrote:
> I was trying to create a query like this:
> 
>     query =
>     {
> 	'seen',
> 	'sentbefore ' .. date_before(7),
> 	'subject "[unix-admin] Output from \"cron\" command"',
>     }
> 
> Notice the mail subject has literal "quote" characters that I want to
> match.
> 
> Imapfilter silently produces no results.
> 
> When run in verbose mode, this error becomes apparent:
> 
>     C (3): 1003 UID SEARCH ALL (seen) (sentbefore 20-Aug-2004)
> 	(subject "[unix-admin] Output from "cron" command")
>     S (3): 1003 BAD Missing required close paren in Search command
> 
> The quote characters are messing up the syntax.
> 
> Doesn't IMAP protocol allow for this character to be sent?  What can be
> done to fix this problem?

Try this:

  ...
  'subject "[unix-admin] Output from \\"cron\\" command"',
  ...