[Plugin: Postie] put reply as comments: “Re:” works but not “RE:” in the subject line

The corresponding code is in the postie-functions.php.

preg_match(“/(^Re:) (.*)/i”, $subject, $matches)
It seems to be case insensitive. I don’t what’s wrong…

function checkReply(&$subject) {
  /* we check whether or not the e-mail is a reply to a previously
   * published post. First we check whether it starts with Re:, and then
   * we see if the remainder matches an already existing post. If so,
   * then we add that post id to the details array, which will cause the
   * existing post to be overwritten, instead of a new one being
   * generated
  */

  global $wpdb;
  // see if subject starts with Re:
  if (preg_match("/(^Re:) (.*)/i", $subject, $matches)) {
    $subject=trim($matches[2]);
    // strip out category info into temporary variable
    $tmpSubject=$subject;
    if ( preg_match('/(.+): (.*)/', $tmpSubject, $matches))  {
      $tmpSubject = trim($matches[2]);
      $matches[1] = array($matches[1]);
    }
    else if (preg_match_all('/\[(.[^\[]*)\]/', $tmpSubject, $matches)) {
      preg_match("/](.[^\[]*)$/",$tmpSubject,$tmpSubject_matches);
      $tmpSubject = trim($tmpSubject_matches[1]);
    }
    else if ( preg_match_all('/-(.[^-]*)-/', $tmpSubject, $matches) ) {
      preg_match("/-(.[^-]*)$/",$tmpSubject,$tmpSubject_matches);
      $tmpSubject = trim($tmpSubject_matches[1]);
    }
    $checkExistingPostQuery= "SELECT ID FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE
        '$tmpSubject' = post_title";
    if ($id=$wpdb->get_var($checkExistingPostQuery)) {
      if (is_array($id)) {
        $id=$id[count($id)-1];
      }
    } else {
      $id=NULL;
    }
  }
  return($id);
}

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