[MlMt] exclude emails in address pattern ?

Benny Kjær Nielsen mailinglist at freron.com
Sun Oct 28 06:28:32 EDT 2018


On 27 Oct 2018, at 9:35, Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:

>> 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.)
>
> mailmate uses PCRE-like syntax for its regular expression, right ? 
> then regextester.com is a nice tool for testing.

Not that it matters for you, but I'm pretty sure it works. MailMate uses 
[oniguruma](https://github.com/kkos/oniguruma/blob/master/doc/RE) which 
includes negative look-ahead.

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Benny
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