Spam Filter ISP Forums : Regex? https://www.logsat.com/spamfilter/forums/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 03:02:30 +0000 Sat, 17 May 2003 22:24:00 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 11.04 360 https://www.logsat.com/spamfilter/forums/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=590 <![CDATA[Spam Filter ISP Forums]]> https://www.logsat.com/spamfilter/forums/forum_images/web_wiz_forums.png https://www.logsat.com/spamfilter/forums/ <![CDATA[Regex? : U may search any perl, python...]]> https://www.logsat.com/spamfilter/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=590&PID=593&title=regex#593 Author: Guests
Subject: 590
Posted: 17 May 2003 at 10:24pm

U may search any perl, python documentation for it. or just find any regexp tutorial for newbies in i-net. There also is a document called Regular_Expressions.htm in spamfilter's distribution package with some explanations on regexps.

As for using it in spamfilter, u may use regexps in any black/white lists where it's allowed (it's written in the top of each black/white list in comments), except keywords blacklist.

As for it's syntax, every single LINE of text in every single local list that is currently able to support wildcards will be treated as usual. But if any one of those lines of text starts with an open parenthesis '(', then that one single line will be tested using regexp rules.
 
So for example in your black email list, you can have:
 
001@1stdns.net
01@dqedu.net
06033971509-0001*
320052144390-0001@t-dialinnet
520099975562-0001@t-online.de
arichter@mainpean.de
([_a-zA-Z\d\-\.]+%[_a-zA-Z\d\-]+(\.[_a-zA-Z\d\-]+)+)
arichter@starweb-service.de
ads@mallpool.com
angelica22lyximboorg7@hotmail.com
annasvetcy59@hotmail.com
and just that one regex line will be matched using regex. All other lines will be processed regularly with common fast matching.
 
For now regexps are VERY lack of performance, so use it with caution.
]]> Sat, 17 May 2003 22:24:00 +0000 https://www.logsat.com/spamfilter/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=590&PID=593&title=regex#593 <![CDATA[Regex? : Here is the url that is provided...]]> https://www.logsat.com/spamfilter/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=590&PID=591&title=regex#591 Author: Guests
Subject: 590
Posted: 17 May 2003 at 4:44am

Here is the url that is provided with the help file included with SpamFilterISP.

http://www.anaesthetist.com/mnm/perl/regex.htm

]]> Sat, 17 May 2003 04:44:00 +0000 https://www.logsat.com/spamfilter/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=590&PID=591&title=regex#591 <![CDATA[Regex? : Hi...., Where can i find more...]]> https://www.logsat.com/spamfilter/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=590&PID=590&title=regex#590 Author: Guests
Subject: 590
Posted: 17 May 2003 at 4:36am

Hi....,

Where can i find more info on how to use the regex with spamfilter?

i didnt saw any update,explenation on the docs...

 

 

Thanks,

Eran.

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