Ben Kennedy asked: >Any hints? Is my regex bad, or is PM's idea of a regex botched somehow?
You can do regex with PowerMail Mail filters? Where did this expectation come from? You can read more about the search pattern possibilities used in PowerMail and Foxtrot here: <http://www.ctmdev.com/powermail/manual/ foxtrot_search_patterns.html> MB Technoids: PM 6.0.3 build 4609 sv | OS X 10.5.8 | PowerMac G5 Dual 2.0 | 4GB / 1TB