Symantec 10490452 Administration Guide - Page 91

Configuring email filtering 91 Creating virus, spam, and compliance filter policies Table 4-9 Filter tests (Continued) Test type Description Ends with/does not Equivalent to .*text$ wildcard test using matches exactly. end with Matches exactly/ does not match exactly Exact match for the supplied text (not available for the message body). Notes: All text tests are case-insensitive. Some tests are not available for some components. Using Perl-compatible regular expressions in conditions To use Perl-compatible regular expressions, click "matches regular expression" or "does not match regular expression" for any of the conditions that offer you that choice (the conditions in the first row of Table 4-8, plus the Message header condition). You can refine your search as described in Table 4-10. To match certain special characters, you must escape each with \ as shown in the table. For more information about Perl-compatible regular expressions, see: http://www.perl.com/doc/manual/html/pod/perlre.html Table 4-10 Sample Perl-compatible regular expressions Character Description Example . Match any one character j.n jo.. .* Match zero or more sara.* characters s.*m.* .+ Match one or more sara.+ characters s.+m.+ \. Match a period stop\. \* Match an asterisk b\*\* \+ Match a plus character 18\+ Sample matches jen, jon, j2n, j$n john, josh, jo4# sara, sarah, sarahjane, saraabc%123 sm, sam, simone, s321m$xyz sarah, sarahjane, saraabc%123 simone, s321m$xyz stop. b** 18+