[Mimedefang] Matching question

[David F. Skoll]

On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:

> extracting $Sender for a while now, and everything I get is in the form of:

> #ZDNet:  <Online#3.6184.ff-wC7ol8i3fyro.1.b at newsletter.online.com>
> #Yahoo:  <reminders at yahoo-inc.com>
> #Me:     "Ashley M. Kirchner" <ashley at pcraft.com>

Really??  You get "Ashley M. Kirchner" included?  $Sender comes from
the SMTP "MAIL FROM:" command, which can have only an e-mail address
and not any comment text.

>     And if I'm only matching part of that, ( =~ /newsletter\.online\.com/ or =~
> /reminders\@/ or =~ /\@pcraft\.com/ ), it should work without complaining.

It will work fine, but I like the tests to be as tight as possible.

Regards,

David.