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Mail.app: id junk using regular expressions?
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Nov 6, 2003, 11:38 AM
 
Lately our beloved spammers start using V!iagra instead of the correct spelling, which managed to escape the built-in junk filter in Mail.app.

I'm wondering if it's possible to whip up some sort of script to make it possible to use regex in Mail.app. I know nothing about AppleScript, so I'd appreciate someone with the know-how to give some suggestions.

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Nov 9, 2003, 09:03 AM
 
I'd like to strongly second this.

If Mail.app's rules could perform (egrep-style) regular expression matches, life would be better.

If { Message Content } { Matches }
(enlarge your|enlargement patch|p[.!]*e[.!]*n[.!]*i[.!]*s)
{ Move Message } to mailbox: { Junk }

Kindly suggest to the Apple Mail.app team that regex matching be provided in Mail.app's rules... implementation. It will allow people to use fewer rules to more efficiently handle the slurry.

M. J. Hawley
     
   
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