Steve wrote: >By the way someone had suggested trying single brackets [:alpha:] this >simply does not. > Yeah, that's not a good idea when using the :alpha: notation. I recommended removing the superfluous parens (), which probably is a good idea as the outer set of parens in:
(<name\@(domain|domain2)) aren't doing anything other than creating a \1 backreference that you aren't using. Usually i tend to do [a-z] instead of [[:alpha:]], but they should be equivalent in a /i regex Another trick to consider is using \w instead of [[:alnum:]], \w is equivalent to [a-zA-Z0-9_] (anything alpha-numeric or underscore). But that's really a "quick to type" tweak not an accuracy tweak. >I'm now testing it with the \s+ for spaces to see if that >makes any difference. It certainly words when I sent mail from pine I must >see if it does from outside in spam world. > That will help if there's any cases of double-space, or a tab instead of a space, etc..
