Request for comments
Julian Field
MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Jul 19 18:42:03 IST 2007
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I am wondering if it would help if I added "Subject" to the list of
things you could use in rulesets.
Would it be useful?
You would only be able to match against exact strings or regular
expressions, and I'm not quite sure how I would parse it in the ruleset
files. Exact strings would be in double-quotes, with '"' characters in
the string doubled up as a means of escaping them. How I would find the
end of a regular expression is another matter. I guess it would be
surrounded with '/' characters, and I would look for the first '/' that
wasn't preceded by a '\'.
I would have to allow the 'i' on the end of a regexp match at least.
Matching against a quoted exact string would be a substring match.
It would be available just about anywhere you can use a ruleset, as I
read the subject line near the point where I read the from and to
addresses from the envelope.
Multiple "Subject:" lines would be handled by adding them all together
with a \n newline between each one.
Your comments please....
Jules
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