On Jun 12 09:58, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
> Ooops, there's a typo in that. Here's what the pattern in
> double-quotes should be:
>
> ^X-Spam-Level: [*]{5,9}$
> || | | | `-- means "the end of the line"
> |`------------' | `-- means "between 5 and 9 of the preceeding
> | | | element"
> | | `----- means "an asterisk" (an asterisk by itself
> | | means "any number of the preceeding element")
> | `-------------- means "the literal string 'X-Spam-Flag: '
> `---------------------- means "at the beginning of the line"
>
> In other words, SpamAssassin by default adds two headers to most
> email: an X-Spam-Status header and an X-Spam-Level header.
> X-Spam-Status is something like "X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.4..." and
> X-Spam-Level is just a series of (by default) asterisks, one for every
> point in the score the mail generated. The pattern here matches based
> on the number of asterisks, and specifically, matches between 5 and 9
> asterisks, which translates to messages with scores >= 5 and <= 9.
Thank you for the awesome and very detailed response! Now it makes
perfect sense to me! Once again, thank you!
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Dave Waxman
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