On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 02:40:43PM +0800, Edward Dekkers wrote: > Hey guys - those familiar with mailfilter could you please check this out > and see whether I've blown something in the .mailfilterrc file or this is a > mailfilter bug.. > > I have a rule to delete anything from i.net (Spammer addresses). > > but it seems to delete anything at iinet.net.au as well using that rule. Any > idea what's going on? > > Thanks - see below for transcript. > > > Queued messages: 1 > There is 1 message in your incoming mailbox. > mailfilter: 0.2.4 querying mail.iinet.net.au on Fri May 3 11:45:00 2002 > mailfilter: Examining 3 message(s). > mailfilter: Deleted "Annette Beale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Re: Wheres my > brain, Fri, 3 May 2002 11:34:51 +0800. [Applied filter: '^From:.*@i.net'] > 2 messages for treplid at mail.iinet.net.au (3309 octets). > reading message 1 of 2 (1058 octets) . flushed > reading message 2 of 2 (2251 octets) .. flushed > fetchmail: No mail for flaropl at mail.iinet.net.au > Queued messages: 1 > There are 3 messages in your incoming mailbox.
You regular expression is wrong. ^From:.*@i.net is interpreted as follows: Anything that begins with "^From:" followed by any number of characters, followed by 'i' followed by any single character, followed by the string 'net'. So of course "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" will match, since "iinet" is 'i' followed by a single character followed by "net". You need to make your regular expression more precise, like this: ^From:.*@i\.net$ That backslash escapes the dot, and the '$' makes sure that only addresses ending in i.net match. -- Anand Buddhdev Personal site: http://anand.org _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
