On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Duncan Findlay wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 02:53:08AM -0700, Charlie Watts wrote:
> > On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Charlie Watts wrote:
> >
> > > Some interesting discussion here. Apparently many freemail providers
> > > require the first character of your username to begin with a letter, not a
> > > number.
> > <snip>
> > > header FROM_INVALID_FREEMAIL_USER   From =~ 
>/^\d.*([hg]otmail|yahoo|netscape|msn|aol|algelfire|usa|(opera|eudora|dreame|tan|turbo|cara)mail)\.(com|net)/
> > > describe FROM_INVALID_FREEMAIL_USER From invalid freemail address
> > >
> > > I don't know how accurate that list is, or even if it is true. :-)
> >
> > I just verified that hotmail, yahoo, and netscape, at least, all DO
> > require the first character to not only not be a number, but actually to
> > be a letter.
> >
> > Perhaps this is better:
> >
> > header FROM_INVALID_FREEMAIL_USER   From =~ 
>/^[^a-z].*(yahoo|netscape|msn|aol|angelfire|usa|([hg]otmail|opera|eudora|dreame|tan|turbo|cara)mail)\.(com|net)/
>
> ([hg]otmail|opera|eudora|dreame|tan|turbo|cara)mail
>
> What's hotmailmail.com?

Me being a stupidhead. The test has other problems, too - I was about to
mail that it needs some more regex work. It needs to extract the
-address-, not look at the whole From field. I know better than to try
thinking at 3 AM.

-- 
Charlie Watts
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Frontier Internet, Inc.
http://www.frontier.net/


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