[Mailman-Users] Re: ban_list example?

David Gibbs david at midrange.com
Mon Oct 13 19:44:00 CEST 2003


Scott Lambert wrote:
> Not knowing anything about mailman's use of these values:

Well, that's kind of important, don't you think?

> The "^.*something" regex is equivalent to just "something".  

Since the caret "^" means that this entry in the ban_list setting is a 
regular expression, and not part of the regular express itself, 
".*something" means match anything that begins ends in "something".

Seems pretty easy to me.

david








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