Re: [exim] How to filter 'negatively' ?

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Autor: Philip Hazel
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Dla: Ian Eiloart
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Temat: Re: [exim] How to filter 'negatively' ?
On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Ian Eiloart wrote:

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> > if $message_headers does not contain "xxxx:" then ...
>
> Ooh, isn't this going to generate a number of false positives? Should we not
> match on the start of the line? Can we say this?:
>
>    if $message_headers matches "^xxxx: "


If xxxx is pretty unique, the false positive risk is low. You would have
to say "(?m)^xxxx:" to enable "multiline mode" if you want to be
pedantic. Or use "\\N(^|\\n)xxxx:".

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