Re: [spamdyke-users] More robust wildcards in recipient-whitelist-file?

2007-10-30 Thread Marc Van Houwelingen
I'm pretty sure that square brackets are not valid email address characters. Given this, maybe some sort of scheme where [] would delineate wildcards. Regular expressions may not be so easy, since [] are meaningful inside them, but perhaps something simple like and asterisk representing zero or

Re: [spamdyke-users] More robust wildcards in recipient-whitelist-file?

2007-10-30 Thread Davide Bozzelli
Marc Van Houwelingen ha scritto: I'm pretty sure that square brackets are not valid email address characters. Given this, maybe some sort of scheme where [] would delineate wildcards. Regular expressions may not be so easy, since [] are meaningful inside them, but perhaps something simple

Re: [spamdyke-users] More robust wildcards in recipient-whitelist-file?

2007-10-30 Thread Sam Clippinger
Actually, brackets are legal in email addresses. The full list of legal characters is (as far as I know): a-z A-Z 0-9 @ / : . # [ ] - \ _ = , ! On my keyboard, that doesn't leave much and I can't guarantee the remaining characters aren't legal either. I'm not sure I want to use a

Re: [spamdyke-users] More robust wildcards in recipient-whitelist-file?

2007-10-29 Thread Sam Clippinger
Yes, starting a line with @ is the only available wildcard. I thought about doing more, just like you're asking about, but I got hung up on the complexities. Email addresses allow so many characters that it's hard to find a good way to indicate a wildcard. I was also afraid that no matter