On 08/27/2015 02:49 AM, Nelson Kelly wrote: > > Common to ALL of the bot subscribe requests is including within the the > email address a "+" symbol. > > So I tried entering RegExp ^.*+ but Mailman rejected this entry.
Because '+' means 1 or more of the preceding, but the preceding is a repeat itself so it's a bad regexp. > But was able to enter RegExp of ^.*/+ > However that allowed all the bot spam requests through. because that says 0 or more of anything followed by 1 or more slashes (/) which is unlikely to match anything. (You probably wanted ^.*\+ but see below.) > Unable to keep up with the bots changing the address prefix. > > Can anyone recommend an example of a RegExp entry which would > prevent/solve this dilemma? Yes. ^.*\+\d{3,}@ See <https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2015-August/079668.html> for a bit more. -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ 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