Thanks for your tips. I will try some of them. I think Im crazy but here what I seem to have notice which I know does not make sense.
When I set up the rule and then send mail from Pine to myself it seems to catch it. But when real spam comes in it does not catch it. This I know does not make sense and I must be doing something wrong but below I have cut and pasted the two email addresses from the headers to show you that they are exact in nature. Mine from Pine: To: Joe Blow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >From spam. To: Leland Brant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Catches mail sent from pine but not from outside. Am I nuts or what ?? "Brian R. Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > S Semple wrote: > > I have email coming to me in the following way. > > To: Fake Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > In other words it has two words before the email address. Eventually I will make it so it searches the prefix name for letters not found in my name. However to start I just wanted to see if I could find two words before the email address. All reasoning tells me that the following should work but it does not. Im stumpted. The name has a space as indicated in my example. > > > > header CM_BAD_NAM_PREFIX To =~ /[[:alnum:]]{1,10} [[:alpha:]]{1,10} (<name\@(domain|domain2))\.COM>/i > > > > I have found that /[[:alpha:]]+ (<name\@(domain|domain2))\.COM>/i > > finds : > > To: Fred <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > I thought searches didn't need to be anchored. > > > > Any advice. > > > > > Try replacing the literal spaces with \s+ also, the < and > should be > followed by ? as they will not always be there. > > In any case, it won't necessarily work, as the display name is > controlled by the senders mail client, and they can call you anything > they want. If, for instance, I have you in my work address book, the > display name would be "Steve Semple (email)" were I to send you email. > > -- > Brian R. Jones > Ob. tagline: > "I never follow the herd. > Even when it's going the right direction." >
