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I get bombarded with various spam with addresses that are very similar, but different enough that a simple expression won't work. I would like to create a regex expression and was wondering if someone could help me with it.

Below are examples of some of the spam email addresses.

[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]

As you can see they all start with "bounce-9", have a specific number of digits, a hyphen, again and specific number of digits, a hyphen, a connotation of my email address (I've removed my actual email address), and then a changing domain.

I was thinking of setting up a sender blacklist that starts with "bounce-9", checks for a specific number of digits before the hyphen, checks for the hyphen, again checks for a specific number of digits after the hyphen, then checks for a hyphen and the email address string, and the domain would be the wild card.

Can a regex expression be setup to do what I'm wanting to do?

Thanks
Josh

by Josh more than 10 years ago
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Try the following one:

bounce-9\d{3}-\d{10}-josh=address\.com@.*

by Krisztián Fekete (Vamsoft) more than 10 years ago
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Thanks Krisztian!

I'll give that a shot, but from the initial checks it looks like it'll work.

Josh

by Josh more than 10 years ago
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@Josh: Glad to hear it works :)

by Krisztián Fekete (Vamsoft) more than 10 years ago
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