Re: sieve match with contain asterisk

On 7/3/21 12:36 AM, Hardy Flor wrote:

Thanks for the hint. But that means the keyword can be within the subject. I actually only wanted to look for it at the beginning.

Ah. In that case, you want:

if header :matches "Subject" "\\*xyz\\**"

I tested this and it works; see https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5228#section-2.7.1:

"?" and "*" may be escaped as "\\?" and "\\*" in strings to match against themselves. The first backslash escapes the second backslash; together, they escape the "*". This is awkward, but it is commonplace in several programming languages that use globs and regular expressions.

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