On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 06:16:09PM -0700, Ryan wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 September 2001 05:55 pm, you wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 04:26:33PM -0700, Ryan wrote:
> > > I'm trying to setup a mail filter in kmail to deal with an annoying
> > > spammer who's isp won't kick him off. His subjects are allways devoid of
> > > lowercase letters. Kmail allows sorting by whether or not a header
> > > matches a regular expression. So I told it to kill anything not matching
> > > the regexpr
> > >
> > > [^a-z]*[a-z]+.*
> > >
> > > but this doesn't work. A little help?
> >
> > [a-z]
> >
> > However, this may not necessarily be the best course. In practice,
> > some have found that they do indeed get valid emails with *short*
> > all-caps messages. Subjects like: HELP or CGI or YOU GO, RYAN!!! are
> > plausable. So another idea might be to kill messages whose subjects
> > have no lowercase and are at least n characters long.
> >
> > Micah
>
> Yea, that sounds like a good idea, but can you tell me how to do it (I know
> it can be done, I even read a howto on regexprs, but I'm thinking kmail has
> poor regexpr support.)?
>
> Tring the other options that were posted resulted in somewhat unpridictable
> flagging.
Something like: /([a-z]|.{1,10})/ may work (for keepers).
Micah
