Slightly OT: Why isn't this regex working in local.cf for my server?

[Christopher Fisk]

I figured it out right after I sent this.  Figures.

I needed to add / to the beginning of the rule and /i to the end of the rule.


Christopher Fisk


>  First:  I *know* something similar has been asked, but I
>  just can not find it in the archives and have been
>  searching over an hour, so I have given up.  I think my
>  search skills are rusty.

>  header LOCAL_AUTH_RCVD_QN  Received =~ Authenticated
>  sender: [A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}\) by
>  mailserver\.mydomain\.tld
>  score LOCAL_AUTH_RCVD_QN -100
>  describe LOCAL_AUTH_RCVD_QN        Whitelist for
>  Authenticated users


>  The header I am matching on is as follows:

>  Received : from MYSERV (unknown [###.###.###.###])
>  (Authenticated sender: user at domain.tld) by
>  mailserver.mydomain.tld (Postfix) with ESMTPA id
>  CED3719C1DB for <user at domain.tld>; Mon, 29 Mar 2010
>  10:22:09 -0400 (EDT)


>  I assumed that I could match on just the middle part that
>  won't really change except for the email address:

>  "Authenticated sender: user at domain.tld) by
>  mailserver.mydomain.tld"

>  I found the regex [A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}
>  on http://www.regular-expressions.info saying it would
>  match 99% of email addresses.


>  Is it possible I am not loading local.cf?  It is in
>  /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf  Other cf files in that
>  directory are loaded as far as I can tell.  I think that
>  this is just me not understanding how to do a proper
>  regex.

>  Am I missing a wildcard before and after my string? 



>  Thank you very much!


>  Christopher Fisk

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