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Are there windcards for filters?

Here is my problem. I have a domain, call it domain.com. Mailwasher does a good job at weeding out the spam to me, [email protected], but I get a ton of stuff for [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], etc... I'd like to tell mailwasher to delete everything that has 'domain.com' in the To: field, but does not contain [email protected], [email protected], and them.domain.com. I don't want to tell it to delete everything that doesn't have those three email addresses because sometimes i'm in a blind cc or something, but I want it to look and see if it's addressed to anything at domain.com and if it's not me, us, or them, then delete it.

I tried
"all must be true"
if "To:" contains *@domain.com
and
if "To:" does not contain [email protected]
and
if "To:" does not contain [email protected]
and
if "To:" does not contain [email protected]
...then delete

that did not work.

any suggestions?

You need to use regular expressions, take a look at this topic for a starter, the to-me and not-to-me filters might help:

http://forum.firetrust.com/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=5575

"all must be true"
if "To:" contains @domain.com
and
if "To:" does not contain [email protected]
and
if "To:" does not contain [email protected]
and
if "To:" does not contain [email protected]
...then delete

You just needed to remove the * from the first rule

But as Stan says, regex is extremely powerful and well worth learning

Thanks for the replies. I will read that thread, check out regex, and in the mean time remove the star.

So there are no wildcards for the regular rules in the filter?

Contains is an implied wildcard ie @domain is the same as *@domain*

regex is the way to go:
(^|<|\x20) = Start of line or < or space, to find the start of the email address.
.+ = 1 or more characters.
\. = .
\b = Word boundry, find the end of the address.

deaded wrote:So there are no wildcards for the regular rules in the filter?

Right, in plain text mode every letter is just a letter, to get wildcards you switch to regex mode. Wildcards in regex are as simple as . and * but have many other options and much better control.