@Ikeb -- other way round: your hit was surely one that *was* enclosed by quotes.
As was said above by Denn998 (sorry I haven't got the hang of quoting): "The part of the expression that reads ["?] would mean that the RegExp is looking for either a " or a ? At least one of them must be present for the expression to be true."

Tough call, dig him out, start asking questions, try him somewhere and shoot him or drop a grenade in the hole and fill it back in.

I caught another 'space' problem with the filter. It occured when I modified it to ensure a space before 'color'...and neglected to remove the previous space after font.

Change the code for this filter to read:

One more thing concerning Body or background colors...

Most people don't change the body color or background color of any e-mail they send you.

You have to figure that anyone who does mess with either the background or body color is doing it to get your attention...in other words...an advertising method.

The way I look at it is that if someone I don't know, or who is not on my friends list sends me something like that...they must be trying to sell me something.

In those cases where they send messages with very light font colors to me....my response is an "AUTO-DELETE" via the filter. I don't care what the background color might be. If they are not trying to hide tracking words..they are trying to dazzle me with colors. Either way....they are DOA.


By the way....that is another thing that Firetrust might like to put into their program....user chosen sounds whenever a filter fires and Auto-deletes.

My choice would be the sound of a toilet flushing each time my filter fires.

Hey, I'm not aspiring to a knighthood... I have very quickly become aware of the limitations and dangers involved, having automatically deleted genuine emails because of not thinking about all the consequences of certain filters (e.g. those harmless words like 'weight loss' or 'degree' used in a different way than you would expect).

Yes, that 'space' problem was actually the first thing I corrected (more by chance than analysis), but completely forgot to mention it.

As regards a 'sub rule' for the background, you may be right. But as long as the mail contains any kind of 'bgcolor=' coding for a dark background (which would be unusual enough) coupled with the light font, that would make it potentially genuine. Without any dark bgcolor reference at all, it would then be suspicious, but you couldn't safely auto-delete!

In fact, it might be a better (even possible) strategy to look at *any* 'bgcolor' used and compare it with the presence of a light 'font color' (Denn998's filter), since any kind of even mid-color background would cause the light text to stand out.

And anyway, as Denn998 points out, surely no-one sends offers on a pink or blue background (maybe I don't know spam)! Isn't the background is going to be white in almost every case?? And surely no-one ever changes the bgcolor of his mail – except for HTML newsletters using tables, which can be on the 'friends' list.