RegEx
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Category: Spam Filter ISP
Forum Name: Spam Filter ISP Support
Forum Description: General support for Spam Filter ISP
URL: https://www.logsat.com/spamfilter/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=6913
Printed Date: 27 December 2024 at 10:36am
Topic: RegEx
Posted By: meatboy
Subject: RegEx
Date Posted: 01 February 2011 at 8:19pm
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Hi, we've been running SF v424.834 for sometime and its been very good. Recently we have been hit with some spam that requires key words to sort them but every time I look at regex, I just can't get my head around it. I'd like to block an email address used in the text of the spam for example : info@we-spam.com Now clearly I could use the "we-spam" text but how do I put this literally into the keyword area, the dash of course has an effect in specifying a range. Is the correct method to use say we\-spam to remove the metacharacter function of the dash? Should I be using square brackets as well [we\-spam] ?? How can I use absolute literal text no matter the character? Hope this is not too dumb a question. Thanks. |
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Posted By: LogSat
Date Posted: 01 February 2011 at 9:45pm
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meatboy, A RegEx keyword in SpamFilter to block info@we-spam.com would be (the parenthesis are used in SpamFilter to indicate that the keyword is a RegEx expression): (we\-spam) you could also use a non-regex keyword by simply spelling out the literal characters you wish to look for: we-spam ------------- Roberto Franceschetti http://www.logsat.com" rel="nofollow - LogSat Software http://www.logsat.com/sfi-spam-filter.asp" rel="nofollow - Spam Filter ISP |
Posted By: yapadu
Date Posted: 02 February 2011 at 10:49am
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Hmmm... I don't even think you need the \- part. I think you are safe to use (we-spam) because the - is not defined as part of a character set []. I could be wrong of course as I am no regex expert but the test I just did says you don't need it (but did not seem to hurt putting it in either). As roberto said, you don't really need regex for that example though. ------------- -------------------------------------------------------------- I am a user of SF, not an employee. Use any advice offered at your own risk. |
Posted By: meatboy
Date Posted: 03 February 2011 at 6:20pm
Thanks guys for the tips and direction. I think I was making it harder than it really is. Maybe just missed something in the instructions. The addition is working really well and a few other tweaks are getting them. My users think its all gone quiet now but really SF is doing all the work!! 
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