[antispam-f] Re: Broken pipe in lists

  • From: Steven Pampling <steve.pampling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: antispam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 15:29:21 +0000 (GMT)

On 23 Dec, Dave Barnett <as10@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> TFM assures me that the broken pipe at the end of an list entry will=20
> ensure that it is followed by a non alphanumeric.  I have just found=20
> that '.' is considered to be an alphanumeric.

> I had ".mx=A6" to trap Mexico as a list entry and found that AOL have
> a=20 Received: line ...mx.aol.com.  Hasty apologies to my friend.

> Are there any other sneaky country TLDs?

When trapping things like .mx it is best to work on the basis of the TLD
reference being ".mx>" i.e. *always* include the >

The pattern required is given in the Regex example in the AntiSpam manual.

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Steve Pampling

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