[Mailman-Users] Header filtering regex issue

[Mark Sapiro]

On 07/07/2015 12:41 PM, Sibi John wrote:
> None whatsoever !! which is what boggles my mind !

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> From: Mailman-Users On Behalf Of Mark Sapiro
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> Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Header filtering regex issue
> 
> On 07/07/2015 04:43 AM, Sibi John wrote:
>>
>> In my spam filter rules, this is the regex that I have and it matches perfectly.
>>
>> From: .+@(?!(xxx|yyy)\.com).+
>>
>>
>> For some reason, it discards all email and I cannot seem to figure out what I am doing wrong. Any suggestions ?
> 
> 
> The regexp should work. It might match some desired addresses like user at sub.xxx.com and not match some undesired ones like user at xxx.com.au, but it should work for the obvious cases.
> 
> Do you have any other header_filter_rules? If so, what are they?


Actually, there is a problem with your regexp. header_filter_rules
regexps are searched (re.search, not re.match) in multiline mode case
insensitively. This your regexp will match 'from:' in other places in
the headers. Try

^From: .+@(?!(xxx|yyy)\.com).+

to match only a true 'From: header.

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