Hi,
> Thanks
>
> I had not thought of that
> Is that a common search string for that word
I don't know but it fits the pattern. As Richard said, it's possibly
the law of unintended consequences.
My RE was not wholly correct - /^v.*ra$/i would have been better.
There are not many English words that match /^v.*ra$/i :-
dave@sage $ grep -i '^v.*ra$' /usr/share/dict/british-english
Vera
Viagra
vertebra
viscera
You could try creating an account such as vertebra@domain or
viscera@domain and see what happens (I have visions of all those badly
configured spam filters that this will go through seeing all the v*ra
words and beating me to death with backscatter :-)
> Just to clarify it was not my server blocking rather a user on my server
> that was being blocked by someone she regularly sends mail to.
Did she not get a bounce message ?
> Interesting though that if v*ra was being searched for would vera.surname
> not also match?
Yes that would but I was guessing at the RE, it could be /^v.*ra$/i
and that would match vera but not vera.surname though it would match
vera.surnama if she's Italian :-)
Regards,
D
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>
> Anyway it is a possible explanation, thanks
>
> Regards
> Hill
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: exim-users-bounces@??? [mailto:exim-users-bounces@exim.org] On
> Behalf Of David Restall - System Administrator
> Sent: 15 May 2009 17:52
> To: exim-users@???
> Subject: Re: [exim] Blocked because of a name
>
> Hi
>
> > While we are all talking about blocked emails etc. I thought I would post
> > this curiosity I discovered a little while ago
> >
> > Perhaps someone can shed some light .
> >
> > A relative of mine is called Vera and I gave her an account on my email
> > server
> >
> > Her emails were getting blocked by some recipients
> >
> > I sent an email from my account on the same domain no problem
> >
> > I set her up as vera@ another domain on the server and still blocked
> >
> > I now have her set up as vera.surname@domain and that works fine
> >
> > So I could only deduce that the local part "vera" was causing a problem
> >
> > Does anyone have any idea why ? (just out of curiosity)
>
> Have you a spam filter that checks for v*ra (Viagra) ?
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
>
> D
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