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> On Jul 7, 2016, at 8:14 AM, Antony Stone 
> <antony.st...@spamassassin.open.source.it> wrote:
> 
> On Thursday 07 July 2016 at 15:08:44, Lorenzo Thurman wrote:
> 
>>> On Jul 7, 2016, at 7:15 AM, Reindl Harald <h.rei...@thelounge.net> wrote:
>>>> Am 07.07.2016 um 14:12 schrieb Joe Quinn:
>>>> In addition to the above, it's easy for a spammer to register something
>>>> like kajsdhfkjasghdskghlaskfhmicrosoft.com which would also be
>>>> whitelisted for you. I would recommend against using wildcard whitelist
>>>> patterns like that
>>> 
>>> should at least look similar to that:
>>> ^.*\.microsoft\.com$
>>> 
>>> well the ^ followed by .* is also pointless
>> 
>> I see. Thanks for the tip, I'll make changes. The reason I did wild cards
>> was so that I could also capture us domains. Is there a rule that allows
>> me to get subdomains w/o opening myself like I have?
> 
> There's a big difference between subdomains, and domains with letters in 
> front 
> of "microsoft".
> 
> \.microsoft\.com$ will match anything ending in ".microsoft.com"
> 
> That means it will match www.microsoft.com and cdn.microsoft.com for example, 
> but it will not match kajsdhfkjasghdskghlaskfhmicrosoft.com or onmicrosoft.com
> 
> The dot in front of "microsoft" in the regex is important :)
> 
> 
> Antony.
> 
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Great, thanks. 

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