Re: [Exim] new user needs help with filter file

Erm, but beyond that, 'contains' means just that.. if you put just

contains "PLEEEEASE READ"

then that will match a line that has "$$$ PLEEEEASE READ"
or "PLEEEEASE READ THIS RIGHT NOW"


On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Jim Tittsler wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 11:55:41PM -0500, dcutler@??? wrote:
> > I entered this line in my filter file to block spam:
> >
> > $header_subject contains "$$$ PLEEEEEEEASE READ!" or
> > ...
> > Yet my logs return this error:
> > 2000-08-31 19:06:23 13UFij-00062A-01 Error in message_filter
> > file: failed to expand "Fwd: Fw: Fw: Fw: $$$ PLEEEEEEEASE
> > READ!" in filter file: $ not followed by letter, digit, or {
>
> Please see section 6. of the filter.txt document.
>
> The $ symbol has a special meaning in an expanded string. You
> can escape it to get a literal $ by preceding it with a
> backslash... but since the backslash also has a special meaning
> in a quoted string, you need to escape each with another
> backslash. So I believe what you want is something like:
>
> $header_subject contains "\\$\\$\\$ PLEEEEEEEASE READ!" or
>
>

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