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Posted to users@spamassassin.apache.org by "C.M. Burns" <mo...@googlemail.com> on 2010/05/07 09:13:37 UTC

Custom rules - escape characters

Hi list,

when creating acustom rule, what characters have to be escaped?

For example this scustom rule
http://www.novell.com/communities/node/4630/whitelisting-ip-address-spamassassin
escapes both [ and ] while in common regex on only [ must be escaped
http://www.regular-expressions.info/characters.html


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SK

Re: [sa] Re: Custom rules - escape characters

Posted by Charles Gregory <cg...@hwcn.org>.
On Fri, 7 May 2010, Daniel Lemke wrote:
> Am I seeing ghosts or is this the third time you asked the same question on
> this list? Your first mail was already replied so I suggest you have a look
> there to get your answers.
>
> Daniel

Oh, good, it's not my mail server acting up again! (smile)

To OP: Spamassassin uses perl regular expressions - man perlre

- C

Re: Custom rules - escape characters

Posted by Daniel Lemke <le...@jam-software.com>.

C.M. Burns wrote:
>   
> Hm, I have not received any mails related to my post and even more have
> received errors from the listserver with request to "try again later"
> while sending my message.
> I will try to find any related posts in the archives.
> sorry if I annoyed anyone.
> 
> SK
> 
> 

Try this:
http://old.nabble.com/custom-rules---escape-which-characters--tt28469892.html

Daniel
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Re: Custom rules - escape characters

Posted by "C.M. Burns" <mo...@googlemail.com>.


> C.M. Burns wrote:
>   
>> Hi list,
>>
>> when creating acustom rule, what characters have to be escaped?
>>
>> For example this scustom rule
>> http://www.novell.com/communities/node/4630/whitelisting-ip-address-spamassassin
>> escapes both [ and ] while in common regex on only [ must be escaped
>> http://www.regular-expressions.info/characters.html
>>
>>
>> by
>> SK
>>
>>     
>
>
> Am I seeing ghosts or is this the third time you asked the same question on
> this list? Your first mail was already replied so I suggest you have a look
> there to get your answers.
>
> Daniel
>   
Hm, I have not received any mails related to my post and even more have
received errors from the listserver with request to "try again later"
while sending my message.
I will try to find any related posts in the archives.
sorry if I annoyed anyone.

SK

Re: Custom rules - escape characters

Posted by Daniel Lemke <le...@jam-software.com>.

C.M. Burns wrote:
> 
> Hi list,
> 
> when creating acustom rule, what characters have to be escaped?
> 
> For example this scustom rule
> http://www.novell.com/communities/node/4630/whitelisting-ip-address-spamassassin
> escapes both [ and ] while in common regex on only [ must be escaped
> http://www.regular-expressions.info/characters.html
> 
> 
> by
> SK
> 


Am I seeing ghosts or is this the third time you asked the same question on
this list? Your first mail was already replied so I suggest you have a look
there to get your answers.

Daniel
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