[MlMt] exclude emails in address pattern ?

[Benny Kjær Nielsen]

On 16 Oct 2018, at 13:10, David Shepherdson wrote:

> On 16 Oct 2018, at 21.07, Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:
>
>> Is there a way via the address pattern to state .*@example\.com is 
>> good, except dad at example.com and wife at example.com ?
>
> If you can describe it with a regular expression, then you can put it 
> in. For example, you might be able to do something along the lines of:
>
>     .*(?<!dad|wife)@example\.com

For people not used to regular expressions, this uses so-called negative 
lookbehind (if you want to google it). It is also possible to use 
negative lookahead:

	(?!(dad|wife)@).*@example\.com

That is (perhaps) a bit easier to read in this case. (I have not tested 
it.)

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Benny
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