Linda A. Walsh wrote: > Have a different question -- and I feel a bit embarrassed to ask this but > it isn't obvious from the manpage. > > What type of Regular Expressions go into the the white/black list entries? > filename type RE's (what I thought more people would be familiar with, but > on further thought, didn't really make alot of sense for something written > in perl), or perl RE's (which I, personally, prefer, but are much more > "arcane" to the average, non-perl-literate, end-user)?
whitelist_from, whitelist_to, etc take file-glob format. (ie: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) I assume that's what you mean by "filename type RE's" even though it is definitively not a form of Regular Expression at all. > Are they the powerful perl RE's, or did someone actually put in extra > effort toward simplifying (dumbing down) user-design of "RE's". Effort was put in to dumb it down and make it not based on Regular Expressions of any sort, which are generally more powerful but foreign to many. (That said, if you're a sysadmin I'd strongly suggest learning basic regex syntax. "grep" and many other command-line sysadmin tools become so much more powerful if you know how to create a regex.)
