On 2016/03/23 12:44 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> 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
>
Hi Gene,
"From:.*<*\.unwanted-tld" will match a string like this (I have put one section per line to be cleaer):
From:
whatever character
0 or more <
.unwanted-tld
It is greedy, so it will scan until the last < if there are more than one.
Not sure if this is what you need or not. If you can post an example of what you need to match, I can workout another
regex if required.
Cheers
Michele
PS: by the way, the internet is full of excellent documentation about regex ;-)
For example "http://www.regular-expressions.info/"
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