Thanks era. However, If I place a letter boundary, wouldn't words like
Sussex, essex etc get blocked? Many thanks Tom -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 November 2003 10:26 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SAtalk] Re: help On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 07:40:06 +0200, Thomas Kinghorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to spamassassin-talk: (Weird quoting ... are you replying to yourself?) >> \b[Ss][ ./_*-]*[Ee][ ./_*-]*[Xx]\b >> Is this syntax correct. Yes, but it's probably not what you want. >> I have tested using various mails and so far no false positives HOWEVER, >> my colleague complained > that a blank e-mail with an attached word.doc was rejected using the above > rule. > I Have tried S e X, SeX, S-E-X, which matched AND Sussex,essex & asexual, > which did not match. You are using way too lax expressions between the letters. It is no surprise that an attached Word document would happen to contain a sequence which matches contains the letters s, e, and x with some random punctuation between them. s./_*-./*_.ex or se./-.*./-* .x match the regex; the words you tried obviously do not contain \b:s on both sides of the sequence s-e-x which is what your regex requires. Try reducing the punctuation by some other means, like for example by allowing for only a maximum of three non-word characters between the letters, like so: /\b[Ss]\W{0,3}[Ee]\W{0,3}[Xx]\b/ /* era */ -- The email address era the contact information Just for kicks, imagine at iki dot fi is heavily link on my home page at what it's like to get spam filtered. If you <http://www.iki.fi/era/> 500 pieces of spam for want to reach me, see instead. each wanted message. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
