Re: [maildropl] Problems with regular expressions

[Thorsten H. <lis...@th...>]

Moin,

* Christian Lerrahn wrote (2006-03-30 17:34):
>Let's say I want to filter out all emails coming from ab...@de.... I
>tried the following.
>
>/From:\s+.*abc@def\.com/
>/From: *ab...@de.../
>
>However, the only thing I ever got to work was something like
>
>/From: ab...@de.../
>
>Now the line might also be "ABC" <ab...@de...> and this doesn't match any
>more. From what the documentation said, everything looked to me pretty
>much like perl regexps but obviously this is not exactly true. How would
>the correct rule be written?

How about using $FROM? Maildrop already gets the "Message envelope
sender" for you, so just check on that.

Matching mail adresses is not trivial. Friedl has a regex for this in
his book which is one solid page long. Others say it can't be done at
all.

Anyway, for the case you mention above, try /^From:.*?ab...@de...$/.


Thorsten
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