On 5/31/04 12:33 PM, "Brent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just looked around in the Entourage Help Page that Diane is so feverously
> working on, but could not find any mention of this.
>
> Is there a wild card for use in Rules.
>
> I want it to check the headers for a screen name and variations. For
> example, I want it to look for "name*", but to exclude just "name". That is
> an asterisk in the first one.
>
> In other words, dictionary assaults of spam.
You're beginning to hit Entourage's Rules limitations. Grep is not included.
You can do
Match if ALL criteria are met:
Subject contains <name>
Subject is not <name>
However, you can't then add more criteria to match if ANY criteria are met.
In other words, you can't combine logical AND with logical OR in any complex
subsets or hierarchies. They're either a list of ORs (if ANY) or a list of
ANDs (if ALL). You have to make separate rules for the other options.
(Again, if all the rest of them are ORs you can keep them together in just
one more rule. Otherwise, every set of ANDs has to have its own rule.)
If it gets very complicated it might be easier to to it by running a script,
which can combine any network of AND and OR but is slower.
--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP Entourage
Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/toc.html>
AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>
PLEASE always state which version of Entourage you are using - **2004**, X
or 2001. It's often impossible to answer your questions otherwise.
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