wildcards in rules
 

When you create a rule and check the box next to "Subject contains" can
I use wildcards there AND anywhere else in the rule window?

TIA

wildcards in rules
 

Wildcards such as "*"? I guess it depends on where.

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After furious head scratching, no spam asked:

| When you create a rule and check the box next to "Subject contains"
| can I use wildcards there AND anywhere else in the rule window?
|
| TIA

wildcards in rules
 

In article ,
says...

Wildcards such as "*"? I guess it depends on where.

| When you create a rule and check the box next to "Subject contains"
| can I use wildcards there AND anywhere else in the rule window?

In the "Subject contains" box can I use "*angel*" to move all emails
from "starangel" or "angelfree" to the junk mail folder?

wildcards in rules
 

no spam wrote:

When you create a rule and check the box next to "Subject contains"
can I use wildcards there AND anywhere else in the rule window?

Rules don't support wildcards.
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Brian Tillman

wildcards in rules
 

no spam wrote:

In the "Subject contains" box can I use "*angel*" to move all emails
from "starangel" or "angelfree" to the junk mail folder?

A string in the search criteria matches anything containing that string.
Thus, use "angel" and it will match "starangel" and "angelfree" as well as
"D'arkangelo"
--
Brian Tillman

wildcards in rules
 

In article ,
says...

Rules don't support wildcards.

Wouldn't it make more sense to support wildcards?

wildcards in rules
 

In my case, that would place the kids messages to my junk mail folder.
"no spam" wrote in message
...
In article ,
says...

Wildcards such as "*"? I guess it depends on where.

| When you create a rule and check the box next to "Subject contains"
| can I use wildcards there AND anywhere else in the rule window?

In the "Subject contains" box can I use "*angel*" to move all emails
from "starangel" or "angelfree" to the junk mail folder?

wildcards in rules
 

Maybe, but rules are not good spam filters and it looks for partial words
(so word is the same as *word or word*), so only wildcards would be needed
for specific letters - like w*d. Filtering in this manner would take too
much resources.

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"no spam" wrote in message
...
In article ,
says...

Rules don't support wildcards.

Wouldn't it make more sense to support wildcards?

wildcards in rules
 

no spam wrote:
In article ,
says...

Rules don't support wildcards.

Wouldn't it make more sense to support wildcards?

I've been sitting here trying to come up with a good answer to that that
would match the fact that you can't do it. I can only really come up with
two good reasons

1) The problem with people not knowing where their mail went would be
exacerbated and troubleshooting the issue would just be uglier.

2) Wild cards tend to increase the amount of processing power required and
too many rules using wildcards could be a little too intensive.

--
f.h.

wildcards in rules
 

In article ,
says...

Maybe, but rules are not good spam filters and it looks for partial words
(so word is the same as *word or word*), so only wildcards would be needed
for specific letters - like w*d. Filtering in this manner would take too
much resources.

What is the answer?