regexp dealing with display name don't work

[Joelle <jp...@seinesaintdenis.fr>]

Hello,

I want to block e-mails with a sender display name containing given strings.

All my rules of the type ;
From:name =~ /string/
don't work

On the other side,
rules of the type :
From:addr =~ /string/
work

and rules of the type
From =~ /string/
work only if string lies in the address part of the From field

What must I do to filter e-mails on the display name ?



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Re: regexp dealing with display name don't work

[John Hardin <jh...@impsec.org>]

On Thu, 26 Apr 2018, Joelle wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I want to block e-mails with a sender display name containing given strings.
>
> All my rules of the type ;
> From:name =~ /string/
> don't work
>
> On the other side,
> rules of the type :
> From:addr =~ /string/
> work
>
> and rules of the type
>> From =~ /string/
> work only if string lies in the address part of the From field
>
> What must I do to filter e-mails on the display name ?

Firstly, please provide some examples of complete From: headers that you 
want to match. Please don't change them in any way.

Secondly, your first example is case-sensitive. Is it possible that your 
RE and the actual header display name you want to match differ in case?

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