cpanel's mail filter regexp lacking?

[cnbingham]

Folks,
I've tried to create mail filters using cpanel's Mail->Filter commands and it seems that cpanel's implementation of regexp is either lacking or my understanding of regexp is lacking.

It doesn't seem to handle regexp with word boundaries:

\bbadword|badword2|badword3\b

The above will only match badword2 in the subject line--the two on both ends are ignored.

Similarly I have the following regexp set up for the subject filter to eliminate anything marked as [*SPAM*10.0*] or above by SpamAssassin, but the test doesn’t seem to work despite working on some other regexp testing facilities:

\[\*SPAM\*[1-9][0-9].[0-9]\*\]*

This should match (and delete) an email with the subject [*SPAM*10.0*], but not [*SPAM*9.9*] (or anything lower). However, when I try the Filter Test, it says that even a 1.0 will fail and be deleted.

When I try the regexp at http://www.regular-expressions.info/...ptexample.html, it matches properly.

Anyone else run into these problems?

Curtis

[cPanelBilly]

It's perl regex

\[\*SPAM\*[1-9][0-9].[0-9]\*\]*

should be

\[\*SPAM\*[1-9][0-9]\.[0-9]\*\]\*

Check this:
http://www.ilovejackdaniels.com/chea...s-cheat-sheet/

[cnbingham]

Thanx, cpanelbilly. How should the word boundary tags be represented? I don't see a difference in Perl handling.

I've tried

(\bbadword|badword2\b)

but it doesn't seem to make a difference....

Thanx,
Curtis