how do I write a regex that looks for 'X' 'NOT Y' 'Z'

Hi I'm trying to write a rule for SpamAssassin that looks for the following in a message: "From: " followed by "anything BUT 'Mertens Bram' or 'Bram Mertens'" followed by "" So these two shouldn't trigger the rule: From: Bram Mertens

Re: how do I write a regex that looks for 'X' 'NOT Y' 'Z'

or a match inside the body of a message, not a header... Again thanks for the help Bram -- # Mertens Bram "M8ram" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux User #349737 # # SuSE Linux 8.2 (i586) kernel 2.4.20-4GB i686 256MB RAM # # 6:27pm up 8 days 22:04, 11 users, load

Re: how do I write a regex that looks for 'X' 'NOT Y' 'Z'

On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 03:43, Harry Putnam wrote: [...] > > I already have a rule that does what you suggested, it looks like: > > headerM8RAM_FAKE_FROM From =~ > > /(?/ > > score M8RAM_FAKE_FROM 1.0 > > describe M8RAM_FAKE_FROM From contains my address but I didn't send this! > > Is t

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ut it also means that the same answer could return 70 times before any other is returned. However I suppose that theoretically if you keep altering the database, the calculation of the random number changes as well which IMHO might cause some records te be 'skipped'. But that&#

Re: how do I write a regex that looks for 'X' 'NOT Y' 'Z'

means it also triggers on "From:" followed by anything that doesn't contain my e-mail address. The score is probably a bit high, it isn't really recommended to use scores higher than 3.0 in a rule but I needed to counter some negative scores some of these spoofed messages