Mail header From: rule

Denis Beauchemin Denis.Beauchemin at USHERBROOKE.CA
Thu Jan 13 14:06:44 GMT 2005


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D. Dowling wrote:

>Hi
>
>I have written a rule to search the From: field of a mail header. However,
>SpamAssassin does not identify and mark mail from the search string in the
>rule.
>
>For example, I want SpamAssassin to search for mail from any address with
>the suffix, tom.com,
>
>header          TOM_AD_FROM             From =~ /tom\.com/im
>describe        TOM_AD_FROM             From tom.com address
>score           TOM_AD_FROM             1.5
>
>
>  
>
I'm not sure this is the reason but I would drop the "m" at the end of 
your regular expression search and I would also add some anchoring:

header          TOM_AD_FROM             From =~ /\@tom\.com$/i


Denis

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