Re: Matching literal dot in To

On 2015-06-14 11:38, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> On 13.06.15 18:21, Moby wrote:

>> Thanks.
>>
>> This seems to suffer from the same issue that my simplistic recipe
>> suffered from.  Using the same email, here is the recipe I used
>> together with the log snippet:
>>
>> To header from email:
>> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>>
>> Recipe:
>> :0w
>> * ^TO_.*\<[^.@]+\.[^.@]+@
>
> Ah, yes, the unanticipated match is due to allowing a match across ' '.
> We need another tweak. This will be a great deal closer:
>
>     * ^TO_.*\<[^.@ ]+\.[^.@ ]+@
>
> That will not leap to the end of a mismatched address, but slide off it
> in stages, because '\<' is only shorthand for `[^a-zA-Z0-9_]'. But we
> needn't fuss over a lost microsecond here or there. It should do the job
> now.

Indeed, no win possible anymore.

If you also want to log which address matched, try this:

* ^TO_.*\<\/[^.@ ]+\.[^.@ ]+@[^, ]+


BTW, I see more and more UTF-8 encoded email addresses.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_email

-- 
Ruud