Wildcards and 'Begins With/Ends With' in Filters

[The Enforcer]

Hi,

Whilst I can see that you can use wildcards to capture similar email addresses, I cannot see the ability to use wildcards in the Filters settings, am I missing something? If not, I think that this would be a really handy addition, because I would really like to filter out all spammers that send from names that begin and end with the symbols " or - .

Another addition to Filters that would be really useful would be to specify "begins with" or "ends with" alongside is/contains/does not contain. It was that feature that I used in Thunderbird to eliminate the aforementioned spammers.

Cheers,
TE

[gingbat]

Yes, although you cannot use wildcards, you can use regex which is far more powerful....

I am not that clued up on these, they can be pretty specialized.... if stuck, I refer a lot too this site:

https://riptutorial.com/regex

Also, this page is pretty good from forums:

http://forum.firetrust.com/viewtopic.ph ... a757b8635b

Cheers!

[TrustFire]

Hello guys!

Wildcards work fine, here . . . in the Filter section — have been working as far back as I can remember.

[TrustFire]

Another addition to Filters that would be really useful would be to specify "begins with" or "ends with" alongside is/contains/does not contain. It was that feature that I used in Thunderbird to eliminate the aforementioned spammers.

Let me play the Devil's Advocate — here are some more Condition Operators (courtesy . . . The Bat! Professional — the best e-mail client on the planet):—

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[gingbat]

Hello guys!
Wildcards work fine, here . . . in the Filter section — have been working as far back as I can remember.

Definitely correct me if I am wrong, but I am assuming you mean when using regex filters...? as plain txt ones catch whatever you write... eg enter the word "real" (no "") and it will catch real, really realistic etc....

*real* will only catch the email if it actually contains the text "*real*"

[TrustFire]

Oh yeah, they're all RegEx filters — don't have even a single Plain Text filter.

[gingbat]

Sweet as....