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Month: March 2016

Hopeing I can find a regex expert here

From: Gene Heskett <gheskett@...>
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 23:44:01 -0400
Greetings; 

I use mailfilter as a prefilter in front of fetchmail to nuke some spam 
while its still on the server.

But its missing hits on what I suspect is the From: or Return-Path: 
strings that have quotation marks in the string because the string is 
being spec'd by being surrounded by "show this name" bs.

I've added the character < as part of the string its to search for, so 
the search string now looks like "From:.*<*\.unwanted-tld".  Does this 
stand that famous snow balls chance in hell of working well with or 
without a quoted "some funkity name" in front of the real url with the 
<> around it?

I just love the lack of documentation on how this string comparison stuff 
works as shown by the man pages for grep and regex.  All sorts of 
control options are well covered, but figureing out how to write a 
search expression must be one of the worlds better guarded secrets.

So if someone could show me, or give a url that actually has the full 
docs, I'd be greatfull.

Thanks.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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