[Alpine-info] Filter patterns and whitespace

[Bret Busby via Alpine-info]

On 18/7/25 07:44, Joshua Miller via Alpine-info wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 17, 2025 at 6:28 PM Eduardo Chappa via Alpine-info 

> <alpine-info at u.washington.edu <mailto:alpine-info at u.washington.edu>> wrote:

> 

>     On Wed, 16 Jul 2025, Ferdinand Goldmann via Alpine-info 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 <mailto:Sender at foo.host.com>

>      >

>      > where the "@foo.host.com <http://foo.host.com>" part is always

>     the same.

> 

>     Have you tried using scores instead? The idea is to give scores to

>     messages based on certain characteristics. All scores are added, so you

>     would filter based on the total score. To avoid the space problem you

>     would define two (or more) score rules where each rule matches each

>     part

>     of the From field that you identified for messages you want to filter.

> 

> 

> Perhaps I'm misunderstanding, but I think using a pattern match like 

> "From pattern = @foo.host.com <http://foo.host.com>" would do what is 

> being asked. That will match mails coming from "Annoying 

> Sender at foo.host.com <mailto:Sender at foo.host.com>" as well as 

> "Bob at foo.host.com <mailto:Bob at foo.host.com>".

> 


Alternatively, if you do not want to filter out everyone in the domain 
name, simply use, for
"From: Annoying Sender at foo.host.com <mailto:Sender at foo.host.com>"
the parameter
Sender at foo.host.com

That should work.

Try it...


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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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