Hi I tried to add the regular expression sales@.* to the ban list for one of my lists and got: An error occurred: Invalid Parameter "email": Expected a valid email address or regular expression, got sales@.*.
Now, 'sales@.*' _is_ a valid regular expression --- so why did it fail?
(I wanted to ban that set of addresses, because we get an awful lot of chinese spam from sales@some-company-name where the company name is variable)
Peter C
On 8/12/22 16:36, Peter Chubb wrote:
Hi I tried to add the regular expression sales@.* to the ban list for one of my lists and got: An error occurred: Invalid Parameter "email": Expected a valid email address or regular expression, got sales@.*.
Now, 'sales@.*' _is_ a valid regular expression --- so why did it fail?
A regular expression must begin with ^ for the ban list as in
^sales@. Strings that start with ^ are interpreted as regular
expressions and those that don't are interpreted as email addresses.
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