[Alpine-info] Filter patterns and whitespace

[Ferdinand Goldmann via Alpine-info]

On Wed, 16 Jul 2025, Joshua Miller wrote:


> 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...


That's odd... I have this pattern:

LIT:pattern="/NICK=pop.liwest.at/FROM=pop.liwest.at/FLDTYPE=SPEC/FOLDER=INBOX" action="/FILTER=1/FOLDER=\/home\/ferdl\/mail\/000_JUNK/NOKILL=1"

and it fails to detect this from line:

  From: Sleep Apnea NEW at pop.liwest.at


:-/



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> 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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