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List:       sylpheed
Subject:    [sylpheed:23186] Re: mail filters/regex
From:       "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap () osdl ! org>
Date:       2004-06-22 21:17:58
Message-ID: 20040622141758.261a5801.rddunlap () osdl ! org
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On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 20:16:15 +0200 Godwin Stewart wrote:

| On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 11:00:20 -0700, "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
| wrote:
| 
| > E.g., there is a recent ton of spam with Subject: of "$psrst",
| > where pqrst are digits.  I set up a filter with
| > Subject contains "$[0123456789]" and checked the "Use regex" box,
| > but these emails are not filtered to the selected destination folder.
| 
| The "$" character has a meaning of its own in "regexese", so if you want to
| use a $ literal you must escape it. The regex pattern you should be looking
| at is therefore:
| 
| \$[0-9]+

Yep, thanks.

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~Randy

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