The engine uses a standard regular expression parser so a '.' means match any character in that position. If you want to match a period exactly, you have to escape it.
Tripp ----- Original Message ----- From: Bonno Bloksma To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2007 1:41 PM Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] rule does not work Hi, Hmm, indeed the manual states I need to escape those periods but...... These two rules DO work: <DecludeVirus>H~listid.declude.virus:Other lists\Declude antivirus <DecludeJunkmail>H~listid.declude.junkmail:Other lists\Declude junkmail Mails for both mailinglists are indeed moved to the right folder and the periods are NOT escaped. I've just checked, there are no other rules moving mail to these two folders. Also, in the local headers of a mail I find: X-IMail-Rule: <DecludeVirus>H~listid.declude.virus:Other lists\Declude antivirus Data- LISTID.DECLUDE.VIRUS.-16710038 So that rule is indeed applied to move the mail to the proper folder. Trip/Tom, any idea what's going on? I'll adjust the rule for the Openvpn list once more, this time I'll try: <OpenVPNUsers>H~List-Id\: <openvpn-users\.lists\.sourceforge\.net>:Other lists\OpenVpn-Users Met vriendelijke groet, Bonno Bloksma hoofd systeembeheer tio hogeschool hotelmanagement en toerisme begijnenhof 8-12 / 5611 el eindhoven t 040 296 28 28 / f 040 237 35 20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / www.tio.nl ----- Original Message ----- From: John T (lists) To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2007 5:33 PM Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] rule does not work I did not catch this before, you have periods, those have to be escaped. <openVPNUsers>H~List-Id\: <openvpn-users\.lists\.sourceforge\.net>:Other lists\OpenVPN-Users John T From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bonno Bloksma Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2007 12:43 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] rule does not work Hi, Well, <OpenVPNUsers>H~List-Id\: <openvpn-users.lists.sourceforge.net>:Other lists\OpenVpn-Users dit not work. I'll try some else next. I'll try <OpenVPNUsers>H~List-Id\: \<openvpn-users.lists.sourceforge.net\>:Other lists\OpenVpn-Users and see if maybe I DID have to escape the brackets. Met vriendelijke groet, Bonno Bloksma hoofd systeembeheer tio hogeschool hotelmanagement en toerisme begijnenhof 8-12 / 5611 el eindhoven t 040 296 28 28 / f 040 237 35 20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / www.tio.nl ----- Original Message ----- From: Bonno Bloksma To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 3:09 PM Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] rule does not work Hi, The on-line manual states: Note: The following characters have special meaning in a rule: {} () | * + , . : \ If you want to use one of these characters in a search string, precede it with a backslash. For example, to search for a plus sign, enter \+ in the search string. So, escaping the space might have been the error in that rule. I thought I needed tot escape the < and > because they now too have a special meaning, the name of the rule. But, indeed tha manual does not say so. I'll change the rule to <OpenVPNUsers>H~List-Id\: <openvpn-users.lists.sourceforge.net>:Other lists\OpenVpn-Users and see what that will do. Met vriendelijke groet, Bonno Bloksma hoofd systeembeheer tio hogeschool hotelmanagement en toerisme begijnenhof 8-12 / 5611 el eindhoven t 040 296 28 28 / f 040 237 35 20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / www.tio.nl ----- Original Message ----- From: John T (lists) To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 8:38 AM Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] rule does not work Why did you escape the space that is between List-Id\: and \<openvpn? Also, I do not think you have to escape the < or > characters, do you? John T From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bonno Bloksma Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 10:27 PM To: IMail_Forum Subject: [IMail Forum] rule does not work Hi, Why does this rule not work: <OpenVPNUsers>H~List-Id\:\ \<openvpn-users.lists.sourceforge.net\>:Other lists\OpenVpn-Users As far as I know I have escaped all the special chars This is part of the header of a message in that list: .... X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.8 Precedence: list List-Id: <openvpn-users.lists.sourceforge.net> List-Unsubscribe: <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> .... This message was not transferred to proper folder. Another similar rule: <DecludeJunkmail>H~listid.declude.junkmail:Other lists\Declude junkmail does work properly. Header for such a message are: .... X-Identity: 70.91.134.41 | 70-91-134-41-ma-ne.hfc.comcastbusiness.net | declude.com List-Id: <listid.declude.junkmail.-1671003854956.smtp.declude.com> X-Mailing-List: [EMAIL PROTECTED] .... For now I've changed the OpenVpn rule to: <OpenVPNUsers>S~\[Openvpn-users\]:Other lists\OpenVpn-Users but I kinda like the list-id stuff as that will not get confused during crossposting a reply as happens sometimes with similar lists like declude junkmail and virus and with openvpn users and developers. Met vriendelijke groet, Bonno Bloksma hoofd systeembeheer tio hogeschool hotelmanagement en toerisme begijnenhof 8-12 / 5611 el eindhoven t 040 296 28 28 / f 040 237 35 20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / www.tio.nl
