Mailing List CGatePro@mail.stalker.com Message #95872
From: "Fred Zwarts" <F.Zwarts@KVI.nl>
Subject: Re: How to match the asterisk in a rule condition
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:28:40 +0200
To: CGatePro@mail.stalker.com
"Karl" <kgretton@mac.com> wrote in message news:list-47237544@mail.stalker.com...
> You could use an external helper to convert the string to something
> else.
>
> Have you tried that?

No, that might be a way to work around this problem. Thanks!

> On 25-Aug-08, at 3:56 PM, Fred Zwarts wrote:
>
>> "Fred Zwarts" <F.Zwarts@KVI.nl> wrote in message news:list-47136654@mail.stalker.com
>> ...
>>
>>> "Jeff Wark" <jwark@tbaytel.net> wrote in message news:list-47133094@mail.stalker.com
>>> ...
>>>> The solution I've seen each time this question is asked is to have
>>>> your
>>>> spam scoring software use a character other than an asterisk [*]
>>>> for the
>>>> scoring header.
>>
>>> I asked the provider of the spam filter already, but it not clear
>>> if it will become
>>> configurable at a later date, nor what that later date will be. For
>>> the time being
>>> they suggested to ask if the mailer software could not escape the
>>> wildcard.
>>> Most mailers have escapes for meta-characters.
>>
>> From both parties I had expected more flexibility.
>> Stalker could have guessed that there might be a need to match
>> asterisks.
>> (Similar for the comma in lists.)
>> The provider of the spam filter could have guessed that an asterisk
>> is not the best choice because it is not easy to match.
>> Both of them could create some more flexibility to work around this
>> problem,
>> but none of them has it now. So, we can only hope that one of them
>> will do something.
>> Currently, I see no solution.
>>
>>
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