This may be overly obvious, but any CPU load could be minimized if RegEx tests were only conducted on email that flunks other preliminary tests. Don't know if SpamChk works that way or not.
Keith Purtell, Web/Network Administrator VantageMed Operations (Kansas City) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Markus Gufler > Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 2:56 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Easy way to add power and flexibility. > > > Hi Rob > > We plan to add regular expressions to SpamChk. This should be ready at > the end of july after we've finished some other tasks. > > For all who doesn't know what are regular expressions: > With the following expression you can check if a string is a valid > email-Adress: > > /^([a-zA-Z0-9_\.\-])+\@(([a-zA-Z0-9\-])+\.)+([a-zA-Z0-9]{2,4})+$/ > > More easier expressions should allow us to search for > different forms of > the same word/phrase. > At them moment it's not clear how much this will influence the CPU > utilization. > > Markus > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Salmond > > Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2003 4:09 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] Easy way to add power and flexibility. > > > > > > In an earlier email I mentioned the idea of a scripting > > language for building mail filters. It was brought to my > > attention that this is outside the scope of a junkmail > > product which is of course quite true. Howerver something > > that would be very useful in a junkmail filter would be a > > regular expression filter. If you could apply a regular > > expression test against the already available declude values > > (body, header, from, etc) it would be trivial to block all > > mail from domains that contain the word "deal" and begin or > > end with a numeral for instance (we seem to get a lot of these). > > > > Just a thought, > > > > Rob Salmond > > Ontario Die Company > > (519)-576-8950 ext. 132 > > --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
