Is this a wiildcard ?

[Chris <Ch...@011005.com>]

Hi,

Just looking through the SA setup on a couple of my accounts, and notice
in the email filters, that this is in place :
 
Destination
$header_subject: contains "*"  Discard


Isn't * a wildcard ?  Wouldn't that rule above discard all emails ?

Chris.

Re: Is this a wiildcard ?

[Matthias Haegele <mh...@linuxrocks.dyndns.org>]

Theo Van Dinter schrieb:
> On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 04:57:25PM +0100, Chris wrote:
>> Just looking through the SA setup on a couple of my accounts, and notice
>> in the email filters, that this is in place :
>>  
>> Destination
>> $header_subject: contains "*"  Discard
>>
>> Isn't * a wildcard ?  Wouldn't that rule above discard all emails ?
> 
> That isn't from a SpamAssassin config, so the meaning isn't clear.  "*" is a
> glob character, so could mean "anything".  In regexp "*" means 0 or more of
> the thing proceeding it, which is nothing, so it's not valid regexp.  It could
> also just mean the character "*".
> 
> You'd really need to look at the docs for what you're actually looking at to
> find out what it means.
> 

Perhaps header_subject is used in exim?
Some People might mark Spam mails as "*Spam" but only "*" makes no sense 
for me ...

but thats only a guess ...

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Re: Is this a wiildcard ?

[Theo Van Dinter <fe...@apache.org>]

On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 04:57:25PM +0100, Chris wrote:
> Just looking through the SA setup on a couple of my accounts, and notice
> in the email filters, that this is in place :
>  
> Destination
> $header_subject: contains "*"  Discard
> 
> Isn't * a wildcard ?  Wouldn't that rule above discard all emails ?

That isn't from a SpamAssassin config, so the meaning isn't clear.  "*" is a
glob character, so could mean "anything".  In regexp "*" means 0 or more of
the thing proceeding it, which is nothing, so it's not valid regexp.  It could
also just mean the character "*".

You'd really need to look at the docs for what you're actually looking at to
find out what it means.

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