False Positive

On 1/19/2018 2:55 PM, Jeffs Chips wrote:
I am trying to follow this interesting thread - can someone tell me what "FP" means?

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On Jan 19, 2018 12:02 AM, "Pedro David Marco" <pedrod_ma...@yahoo.com <mailto:pedrod_ma...@yahoo.com>> wrote:



    >!~ matches are dangerous because they match by default if you
    >don't anticipate all the legitimate formats. The above will FP on a
    >simple email address. It could be rewritten as a __FROM_DOMAINS_MATCH
    >and used in a meta rule.

    fool me, your are right, RW, thanks...

    >It's also not a complete solution as it doesn't handle third-level
    >domains correctly e.g. in
    >
    >"supp...@paypal.co.uk <mailto:supp...@paypal.co.uk>"
    <jkhj...@bogus.co.uk <mailto:jkhj...@bogus.co.uk>>
    >
    >"co" will match "co". This is why it's probably best to do it in perl
    >where the tlds from 20_aux_tlds.cf <http://20_aux_tlds.cf> can be
    used.

    you are right as well...  but his problem is hard to solve becasue
    subdomains can be almost unlimited
    and even worse... domains can be different but valid, outlook.com
    <http://outlook.com> and hotmail.com <http://hotmail.com> for example.






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