On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 14:45 -0600, Hongwei Li wrote: > > On 2/2/2006 12:10 PM, Hongwei Li wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > >> > >> The * is a wild char because there are probably other letters after office, > >> e.g. . ] or space etc. I also tried: > >> > >> :0: > >> * ^Subject:.*is out of the office* > >> $MAILDIR/Trash > > > > * is not a wild card character. > > > > dot is a wild card character. > > > > When dot is followed by splat (.*) that means "zero or more anything" > > > > So, the above says match on "subject:' starting in column 1 > > followed by any number of characters (zero or more) > > followed by "is out of the office*" > > > > I'm not certain what that last asterisk does.... > > did you try: > > * ^subject:.*is out of the office.* > > > > note the ".*" at the end, and not just "*" > > > > Don > > > > Why does this work when the subject line has many other chars after FAILURE: > > # block junk mails from msnotes: > :0: > * ^Subject:.*DELIVERY FAILURE* > $MAILDIR/Junk This regex means "a Subject: header containing zero or more of any character followed by DELIVERY FAILUR followed by zero or more E characters". Since the regex does not end with "$" it is not anchored to the end of the Subject: header and thus any further characters may also exist at the end of the Subject: header and they will not affect matching. > The real subject is something like: > DELIVERY FAILURE: 550 5.7.1 Message content rejected... > > I didn't use .*, but only * above. Having a * at the end of the regex is pointless here. It does nothing. Paul.
