Re: back

"Peter Bowyer" <[email protected]> Fri, 22 Oct 2004 07:24:43 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.mail.exim.exiscan.user
Message-ID <020e01c4b7ff$d2a70080$0a46a8c0@pbdesktop>
Anand Gupta wrote:
>> deny message = Contains unwanted content
>> regex = ${readfile {filename}{:}}
>
> After nearing killing my mailserver i am back (nothing to do with
> anyone but my stupidity) Can you please tell me how expressions can
> be entered in this file ? How are spaces and special chars handled ?
>
> I entered "subject: blah blah" and had all mails send to the server
> rejected :( My mistake. Cost me a lot of damage.

You said you wanted a list of regexes in a file, which is what the soloution
I proposed allows. What you've typed there is nothing like a regex - what
exactly are you trying to achieve?

Chapter 8 in the Exim docs tells you how regexes work in Exim.

http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.40/doc/html/spec_8.html#IX609

Peter