[Mailman-Users] regexp matching with very long Subject lines

[Mark Sapiro]

Jim Popovitch wrote:

>I have a problem with a mailing list where "out of the office" regexp 
>matches are sometimes failing to block emails to the list due to the 
>Subject actually containing a line wrap.  An example from the header is 
>this:
>
>  Subject: Re:[list] Bobby Painintheass and Susie Givingyouhell are out
>        of the office on vacation this week
>
>Is there any way to match against a Subject that might have a new line 
>anywhere in the text?


Is this is the context of header_filter_rules or something else? Also
what Mailman version?

Starting in 2.1.6, folded headers are unfolded by replacing the
new-line and following white space character with a single space which
"should" give "the correct thing" assuming the above for example is
new-line followed by tab followed by 'of'.

You could always use a pattern like

   '\sout\s+of\s+(the\s+)?office\s'

which will match whitespace, followed by 'out', followed by 1 or more
whitespace characters, followed by 'of', followed by some whitespace,
followed by 0 or one occurrences of 'the' and some whitespace,
followed by 'office' and whitespace.

See <http://docs.python.org/lib/re-syntax.html>.

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