On 5 May 2018 at 13:20, Mark Sapiro wrote: > > Subject =?utf-8?B? > > Do you really mean it doesn't contain the ':'? I am reasonably sure that SOME do not, possibly those few which are getting through, but since you brought that up (although I DID suspect as much), I have not been able to check on the accuracy of my memory since so far this morning, I have had no more of them show up.
> You could try > > ^Subject:?\s*=\?utf-8\?B\? > > which would match Subject followed by a colon or not and any amount of > white space. OK. That sounds perfect. > What you have will match a line beginning with 'Subject: =?utf-b?B?' > case insensitively, but only if there is a colon followed by exactly one > space. Ah. Makes sense. > > I thought the escape character was the \, but maybe it is a / . ? > > It is '\'. As I thought....from my years as a Unix SYSAD...but that was a long time ago. I'm 76 now. > > I am, presently, not all that happy, although I have cut down the Chinese > > garbage by about > > 90% since I implemented other filters. There remains the 10% which is still > > very annoying. > > > As has been mentioned before the above pattern will match any Subject: > header which begins with a base-64 RFC 2047 encoded word with a utf-8 > encoding. This includes some non-english language subjects (more than > just Chinese) and also some English language subjects that might begin > with an emoji or other non-ascii symbol and doesn't include Chinese > language subjects that might be encoded in gb-2312 or some other > non-utf-8 encoding. > > This may work for you, but in general might discard a wanted post. For the two forums I am managing, that is NOT a problem. Thanks. You are (obviously) a real genius at this stuff with loads of experience. Much appreciated. Ken Gordon --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
