[Alpine-info] Filter patterns and whitespace

Joshua Miller via Alpine-info alpine-info at u.washington.edu
Wed Jul 16 07:28:00 PDT 2025


Can you share the relevant lines from your .pinerc? FWIW, I have rules that
match on FROM that include a space and they work. For example:

LIT:pattern="/NICK=tt/FROM=TT SYSTEM <redacted at redacted.com>/...etc...



On Wed, Jul 16, 2025 at 9:31 AM Ferdinand Goldmann via Alpine-info <
alpine-info at u.washington.edu> wrote:


> Hi,

>

> wanted to filter out annoying spam mails using a filter rule on the domain

> of

> the spam sender. The spam mails From fields all have the format of

>

> From: Annoying Sender at foo.host.com

>

> where the "@foo.host.com" part is always the same.

>

> It turns out that a rule filtering for foo.host.com does not work. I

> assume the

> problem is the single blank/whitespace between "Annoying" and "Sender".

>

> Is there any possibility to filter such mails? Or should I rather ask the

> spam

> senders to politely use a valid RfC compliant format for their From

> addresses? :-)

>

> Regards

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