[Mailman-Users] Help with regular expression filters

[Malcolm Austen]

On Tue, 03 Feb 2015 21:43:09 -0000, Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net> wrote:
> In Mailman, with Python regexps
> <https://docs.python.org/2/library/re.html>, I would use
>
> ^Subject:.*\Wtest\W
>
> \W matches any 'non-word' character and is equivalent to [^a-zA-Z0-9_],
> i.e. anything including new-line which is not a letter, digit or  
> underscore.

I trap with - ^subject:.*\btest.* - accepting \W is the better option, I  
tail it with .* as I want to catch 'testing' as well as 'test' :-)

I also have traps - ^subject:.*virus.* - on 'virus', 'spam' and 'digest'  
:-)

What I would really like is a (simple) way to trap the absence of a  
subject header but I think, we can (understandably) only trap on the  
content of something that is present :-(

= Malcolm.

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