(Some) of the Past Regular Expression Threads
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Author: Guest,  PostPosted: Mon Dec 29, 2003 3:16 pm    Post subject: (Some) of the Past Regular Expression Threads
Below is a list of some of the past Regular Expression Filter Threads from the MailWasher Forums here at Computer Cops. Some of the threads contain more useful information than others but they all at least contain some information.

I think it is only right to thank those people involved in these threads for contributing so much of their time knowing that their only reward was helping others.

Paying homage to the filter list that pretty much started it all: Gary's Filters

For a Regular Expression tester to use on your own see this thread:
Is this Satisfactory for testing Regex?

The titles used below are the titles of the topic threads exactly as typed in by the original thread starters.

1. writing a rule to stop spoofing, help?

2. FILTER for mail sent via trojan mailservers

3. filter word in the body

4. filtering advanced garbled html ? ? ?

5. problem with regular expression match

6. Filtering words

7. Some new filters for the MW Sample Filters?

8. "Beta" version of MailWasher Sample Filters

9. Defeating the ...............

10. How do you filter for stuff like this?

11. Expert advice on wildcard filtering and Reg Expr please!

12. Regexpr filter help

13. Filter base64 MIME encoding...

14. Gary's Not A Recipient Filter

15. filters - can I use colons or periods to separate

16. Filter doesn't find keywords in the body

17. Trouble with regexp - repeating with {}

18. filters: Fw:FW: Fww: etc etc

19. MW Sample Filters updated: 2003-06-02a

20. Status of filtered messages

21. How to add filters pasted from forum?

22. Need to find some good filters

23. Mailwasher Filters

24. how to filter these:

25. RegEx filter for "spam tricks" to get past detecti

26. Blank Sender Filtering

27. Filter Fun

28. Filter Question

29. Experimenting with some simple filters

30. filtering message content which is "unfilterable"

31. Newbie Filter Question

32. Filter nonexistent email addresses?

33. Body Filter doesn't work for me.

34. Wildcard Expressions vs. Regular Expressions

35. Filter Help!

36. Requesting help deciphering a regular

37. problem with regular expression match

38. Filter This

39. "No Subject" filter not working

40. The Unofficial Homeland Security Filter

41. Filter Sequence

42. Please help with Regular Expression problem

43. Body text in preview not triggering filters when it should

44. Please suggest a regular expression on this one!

45. Please suggest a regular expression on this one! (Continued)

46. Spam sent from ones own email address

47. Filter for multiple ASCII ( ! 033; - ~ 126;)

48. Filtering nasty URL References

49. Filter for 'white' fonts in msg

50. Q: Case Insensitive Regular Expressions ????

51. How do I filter Subject Lines containing "hi&qu

52. Need help with regex filter.

53. Camouflaged Subjects Can't Be Filtered?

54. Filtering for URLs and other text in body

55. Iana Reserved, etc.

56. Syntax of "Received:" line in header

57. Filtering for URLs and other text in body

58. Filtering "foreign fakers"

For those who may want to try something a little different with MailWasher see this thread:
HowTo: MailWasher with POPFile (Bayesian Filter)
Author: denn988,  PostPosted: Mon Dec 29, 2003 4:54 pm    Post subject:
Whoever took the time to post the above list of links deserves the thanks of all users on this forum.

Searching for, compiling and posting such a list had to take quite some time....and to do so anonymously was a very nice gesture to the 'Christmas' season.

Thank you 'Santa Claus'....I do appreciate the trip you took down the chimney to post the above.
Author: Ikeb,  PostPosted: Mon Dec 29, 2003 5:46 pm    Post subject:
Agreed. Now we just need a Moderator to put a sticky on this one....
Author: Guest,  PostPosted: Tue Dec 30, 2003 2:30 am    Post subject:
A few more filter threads that I think should not be left off of the list:

59. Filtering spam in Russian characters

60. more ideas for filtering mail

61. Coded Headers

62. Different messages

63. Great tip: Copy 'Filter name' into 'Status description'

64. How do you adjust the filter order?

The above posted list are by no means all of the past threads in the MailWasher Forums that have to do with filters and Regular Expressions but the list should provide a more easy hunting ground for someone who is looking for threads having to do with filters.
Author: QuietOne, Location: Texas, USA PostPosted: Tue Dec 30, 2003 4:43 pm    Post subject:
I too want to pay homage to Santa Claus. Denn and Ikeb are certainly right about wanting to thank whoever did all of the "Joe Friday" work. It was no easy feat and they should feel proud of their accomplishment.

I know I sure appreciate having fewer places to look for a large majority of the same info. Makes the day's work go so much faster.

Thanks again Santa.
Author: Ikeb,  PostPosted: Wed Dec 31, 2003 5:53 pm    Post subject:
One of the drawbacks of posting anonymously is that the original post to this topic can't be edited by us users (perhaps DR could though). Our anonymous benefactor who posted this topic has posted an update in the Troubleshooting forum so I've taken the liberty of re-posting the updated post here.

BTW, the updated post comes with the following notes:

Guest wrote:
The above posting is an updated version of the original posting "(Some) of the Past Regular Expression Threads".

In this final posting to make the list more orderly it is structured to run chronologically with the oldest started thread on the list beginning at #1 and the most recently started thread on the list being #63.

A few duplicate thread links I hadn't noticed in the first posting have been removed from this one (I think so anyhow).

I wanted to include the word 'Filter' in the thread title so that has been done. At the time of the first posting I didn't know how many characters were allowed in the thread titles.

Also added to the above posting is a thread referencing Regular Expression tutorials.

Apologies for the double posting of the list.


Here's the update sans quote markings:
==============================================
Below is a list of some of the past Regular Expression Filter Threads from the MailWasher Forums here at Computer Cops. Some of the threads contain more useful information than others but they all at least contain some information.

I think it is only right to thank those people involved in these threads for contributing so much of their time knowing that their only reward was helping others.

Paying homage to the filter list that pretty much started it all: Gary's Filters

For a Regular Expression tester to use on your own see this thread:
Is this Satisfactory for testing Regex?

The same Regular Expression tester (TRegExpr) referenced in the above thread is also recommended in this thread:
Filter tester

For a few web sites which have tutorials on Regular Expression see this thread:
Regular Expressions Help

The titles used below are the titles of the topic threads exactly as typed in by the original thread starters.

1. Newbie Filter Question

2. filtering message content which is "unfilterable"

3. RegEx filter for "spam tricks" to get past detecti

4. Blank Sender Filtering

5. Experimenting with some simple filters

6. "Beta" version of MailWasher Sample Filters Availa

7. MW Sample Filters updated: 2003-06-02a

8. how to filter these: 3otsng76vs62(At Sign)yahoo.com

9. Filter Question

10. Filter Fun

11. Mailwasher Filters

12. filters: Fw:FW: Fww: etc etc

13. Trouble with regexp - repeating with {}

14. Filter doesn't find keywords in the body

15. Expert advice on wildcard filtering and Reg Expr please!

16. filters - can I use colons or periods to separate

17. Filter base64 MIME encoding...

18. Gary's Not A Recipient Filter

19. Regexpr filter help

20. Defeating the ...............

21. Filtering words

22. How do you filter for stuff like this?

23. Some new filters for the MW Sample Filters?

24. problem with regular expression match

25. Different messages

26. FILTER for mail sent via trojan mailservers

27. Blacklist domain?

28. filter word in the body

29. filtering advanced garbled html ? ? ?

30. "No Subject" filter not working

31. Filter Sequence

32. The Unofficial Homeland Security Filter

33. Need to find some good filters

34. How to add filters pasted from forum?

35. Spam sent from ones own email address

36. Status of filtered messages

37. Requesting help deciphering a regular expression

38. Filter This

39. Need help with regex filter.

40. writing a rule to stop spoofing, help?

41. Filter nonexistent email addresses?

42. Wildcard Expressions vs. Regular Expressions

43. Filtering nasty URL References

44. Filter Help!

45. How do I filter Subject Lines containing "hi&qu

46. Body Filter doesn't work for me.

47. Q: Case Insensitive Regular Expressions ????

48. How do you adjust the filter order?

49. Body text in preview not triggering filters when it should

50. Filter for multiple ASCII ( ! 033; - ~ 126;)

51. Please help with Regular Expression problem

52. Filter for 'white' fonts in msg

53. Coded Headers

54. more ideas for filtering mail

55. Camouflaged Subjects Can't Be Filtered?

56. Filtering spam in Russian characters

57. Please suggest a regular expression on this one!

58. Please suggest a regular expression on this one! (Continued)

59. Filtering for URLs and other text in body

60. Great tip: Copy 'Filter name' into 'Status description'

61. Iana Reserved, etc.

62. Filtering "foreign fakers"

63. Syntax of "Received:" line in header

For those who may want to try something a little different with MailWasher see this thread:
HowTo: MailWasher with POPFile (Bayesian Filter)

The above posted list is by no means all of the past threads in the MailWasher Forums that have to do with filters and Regular Expressions but the list should provide a more easy hunting ground for someone who is looking for threads having to do with filters.
Author: denn988,  PostPosted: Sat Jan 10, 2004 4:09 pm    Post subject:
Because Andrey is loosing his web page (that is an absolute shame...but it happens), I am going to repost the previously posted links to 'TRegExpr' (The Regular Expression Engine used in WMP) to point to the 'Delphi' Source locations...



'TRegExpr' will download the Regular Expression Test Program.

After you install it and run it you will note the 'Global Modifiers' checkboxes at the top of the 'Expressions' page of the program. In order to have 'TRegExpr' run with the same defaults as are used by MWP, you must set these modifiers as follow:
<tt>
</tt>These will have to be correctly set each time you open 'TRegExpr',


You can also load the 'Help' files as follows:

NOTE:

You will only be able to test the Regular Expression contained in ONE RULE (in MWP filters) at a time.

Also, the 'input string' should be kept down to a relatively small size (no more than 65,536 Bytes or 2^16 bytes). If the file exceeds that size, the program will still find matches, but will highlight the wrong text (The pointers for that input string window use a 16-bit register and will 'rollover' to the start of the string if the location of the match is past that 16-bit value). If that should happen you can run the expression on a 'file' and it will highlight the correct text.
Author: Charlie_B,  PostPosted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 4:52 am    Post subject:
Denn988, looks like regexstudio has done some moving around. I get nothing but 404 errors on all of the links you put in the above post. Is it just me?

Maybe one day RusticDog or someone can put the updated version of the first post, that Ikeb posted in this thread, at the top since that looks to be the finished version of the filter list.

I haven't as yet but since I'm here I'd too like to thank the person who posted the list. It helps!
Author: Ikeb,  PostPosted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 6:16 am    Post subject:
Actually I should have thought to suggest that RD replace the updated version as the sticky....

As to regexstudio, I get the same thing. Sad That didn't take long.

It looks like some site "rearrangement" is taking place. I found the English Help file at http://www.regexpstudio.com/TRegExpr/Help/RegExp_Syntax.html. It looks like more comprehensive documentation in various languages can be obtained via http://regexpstudio.com/TRegExpr/TRegExpr.html

BTW, it looks like a newer version (0.952) is now available....
Author: IP: 68.51.*.*,  PostPosted: Sun Feb 01, 2004 8:08 pm    Post subject:
Ikeb wrote:

BTW, it looks like a newer version (0.952) is now available....


I am I missing something? In version 0.947 of TRegExpr there is an exe file in the Zip file I downloaded that I can point a shortcut to and have the app function but in version 0.952 I see no such exe.
Author: QuietOne, Location: Texas, USA PostPosted: Sun Feb 01, 2004 9:52 pm    Post subject:
Anonymous wrote:
Ikeb wrote:

BTW, it looks like a newer version (0.952) is now available....


I am I missing something? In version 0.947 of TRegExpr there is an exe file in the Zip file I downloaded that I can point a shortcut to and have the app function but in version 0.952 I see no such exe.


No, you're not missing anything cause I noiticed that too. I guess if you don't have access to a Pascal compiler, you're up the proverbial creek without a paddle - and possibly with a hole in da boat to boot! Laughing Me too!

I've got one thought that may fix the problem but it might take a few days. I'll get hold of RusticDog and see if he can't contact Andrey to see if we can get an executable included in the new versions from now on. I tried contacting him (Andrey) myself but guess he's not answering his mail.
Author: IP: 68.51.*.*,  PostPosted: Sun Feb 01, 2004 11:16 pm    Post subject:
QuietOne wrote:

I'll get hold of RusticDog and see if he can't contact Andrey to see if we can get an executable included in the new versions from now on. I tried contacting him (Andrey) myself but guess he's not answering his mail.


I don't have the ear of 'Andrey' either.

If anyone is in a position to offer suggestions to the developer of TRegExpr, one thing that would be nice would be for the program to remember the 'Global Modifiers' chosen when the program is closed. Instead of having to reset them each time the program is opened.
Author: Ikeb,  PostPosted: Mon Feb 02, 2004 5:34 am    Post subject:
Yeah, that one always gets me as well. You'd think I'd learn after wondering "What the h*** is going on with this filter now?" for the nth time! Embarassed

So the latest version only has the source code eh? I forgot about wanting to install the newer version. Thanks for saving me the trouble QuiteOne.

You know ... we should be asking RD to consider building TRegExpr into MWP....
Author: QuietOne, Location: Texas, USA PostPosted: Mon Feb 02, 2004 6:54 am    Post subject:
Ikeb wrote:
Yeah, that one always gets me as well. You'd think I'd learn after wondering "What the h*** is going on with this filter now?" for the nth time! Embarassed


I'll second, or third, or whatever that particular little item myself. Sure gets tiring trying to verify the *&#@*$E( setup every time you do something.

Ikeb wrote:
So the latest version only has the source code eh? I forgot about wanting to install the newer version. Thanks for saving me the trouble QuiteOne.


You're welcome Ikeb. Anytime I can help, I'm always willing. Well... most of the time anyway. There are a few things where I draw the line. Razz

Ikeb wrote:
You know ... we should be asking RD to consider building TRegExpr into MWP....


That's a really good idea. Glad you thought of it! I asked RD to help the last time --- now it's your dime!! Laughing err nickel, err time!! Laughing Oh whatever! Razz Hey, but I'll back you up on the request.

BTW Ikeb, I heard back from one of the guys at Firetrust, but not RD, on the request about TRegExpr. He's going to see if they can get some action on an executable image. But it'll probably take a week or so. Take care.

Later Ikeb and nice to hear from you.
Author: UserFriendly,  PostPosted: Mon Mar 29, 2004 2:29 am    Post subject:
Quote:
one thing that would be nice would be for the program to remember the 'Global Modifiers' chosen when the program is closed.

I did some Delphi programming at college - nothing serious, but apparently enough to be able to figure out how to change the default state of a few checkboxes.

I looked in the files included in 0.952 and there was no source for a TestRExp.exe. Just the necessary files for adding the functionality to your own application. Looks like development on this freeware regexp tester has stopped.

So I've modified 0.947:

http://www.purechaos.plus.com/mw/TestRExp.exe

It won't 'remember' whether a box was checked or not, just always start with them selected as in denn988's post above.

Enjoy Smile

-UserFriendly
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