Wildcards in account filters

Bob Ulius

• March 12, 2019 14:13

I'm sure I am not alone when I say SPAM is out of hand. I keep up with it almost daily creating filters, but they are getting out of hand/ For example I have these (that work): keto.fat.burn- keto-fat-burn keto_fat_burn Instead of these three, for example, would this work? keto?fat?burn? Thanks!

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  Bob Ulius

  • March 12, 2019 19:25

  Likely should have mentioned I use these as Any Header - Contains - Discard Message.

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  rpvw

  • March 12, 2019 22:06

  You will probably need to use the 'matches regex' operator rather than 'contains'. See

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  Bob Ulius

  • March 12, 2019 22:31

  Thanks. Appreciate your reply. Does this search headers only or all of the message? And if I understand what you say, then this: keto.fat.burn Would match these: keto_fat_burn- keto-fat-burn- And so I would not need either the trailing- or the *. Or am I misunderstanding?

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  cPanelLauren

  • March 13, 2019 18:58

  Does this search headers only or all of the message?

  
  That depends on what you select for the filter - you'd need to select "Body" "Matches Regex" for this to scan the body of the message.

  And if I understand what you say, then this: keto.fat.burn Would match these: keto_fat_burn- keto-fat-burn- And so I would not need either the trailing- or the *. Or am I misunderstanding?

  
  He's saying specifically that keto.fat.burn-*
  would match the three terms you listed: keto.fat.burn- keto-fat-burn keto_fat_burn
  instead of keto?fat?burn?
  An explanation of the -* is found at regex101 -* matches the character - literally (case sensitive) * Quantifier " Matches between zero and unlimited times, as many times as possible, giving back as needed (greedy)
  

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  Bob Ulius

  • March 13, 2019 19:35

  Thanks, but forgive me, I still don't know why I need the "*". I am now testing Any Header Matches Regex keto.fat.burn- and seems to be working as I desire. Am I missing something? Will wait to hear before I add bunches more this way. Thanks!

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  cPanelLauren

  • March 14, 2019 17:36

  If it's matching as you need it then go with it but the * should allow it to be matched as many times in the body as necessary.

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  Bob Ulius

  • March 14, 2019 17:48

  Ahhh, OK. Key word "body". I am searching any header. And even if it were the body, the filter is set to delete the message as soon as the string is found. Hence "*" not needed. And this seems to be easier and working better to do the matching regex with "." wildcards rather tha any header "contains" and a separate rule for each possibility of separator. Thanks.

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