On 9/24/15 1:47 PM, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > > I am trying to block variants of ceertain gmail addresses but I'm having > trouble concocting the right rexexp to accomplish the task. > > Gmail addresses can contain embedded periods and can be followed by a > '+' and an arbitrary suffix. So all the following are the same address: > * joebloe at gmail.com > * joe.blow at gmail.com > * j.o.e.blow at gmail.com > * joe.blow+abcd at gmail.com
In my prior reply <https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2015-September/079856.html>, I focused on your literal question and answered accordingly, but it occurs to me that you are trying to deal with bot generated subscriptions of addresses of the form word.word+dig...@gmail.com. While this pattern is the most common one I've seen, not all addresses are like that. They are in different domains and while all gmail addresses may have dots, not all addresses do and a rare few have had non-digits after the +, but all I've seen have at least 5 digits following a + and immediately preceding the @. For the lists @python.org, we are now using ^.*\+.*\d{3,}@ For the history, see <https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2015-August/079668.html>, <https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2015-September/079829.html> and <https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2015-September/079844.html> and other posts in those threads. -- 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
