Bugs item #1250657, was opened at 2005-08-02 23:12 Message generated for change (Tracker Item Submitted) made by Item Submitter You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=1250657&group_id=103 Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: security/privacy Group: 2.1 (stable) Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Iain Pople (iainpople) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: header_filter_rules should use multiline mode Initial Comment: I have noticed some unexpected behaviour with header_filter_rules. I wanted to reject messages with an empty subject line so i came up with the following regex: ^subject:\s*$ However it wasn't working as desired. After delving around in the SpamDetect.py code i noticed that the re.search call is not using MULTILINE mode. So the headers are treated as one long string and ^ would only match the beginning of the string. Is this the desired behaviour? To me it makes more sense that it should use multiline mode. i.e.: --- SpamDetect.py.bak 2005-08-02 15:56:42.083270000 +1000 +++ SpamDetect.py 2005-08-02 17:33:59.698226000 +1000 @@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ for pattern in patterns.splitlines(): if pattern.startswith('#'): continue - if re.search(pattern, headers, re.IGNORECASE): + if re.search(pattern, headers, re.IGNORECASE| re.MULTILINE): if action == mm_cfg.DISCARD: raise Errors.DiscardMessage if action == mm_cfg.REJECT: @@ -137,3 +137,4 @@ hold_for_approval(mlist, msg, msgdata, HeaderMatchHold) if action == mm_cfg.ACCEPT: return ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=1250657&group_id=103