[SOLVED] Mail Filter / Regular expression error

[abzsol]

Hello everyone,
I'm trying to insert a regular expression inside Mail Filter but I get this error

invalid regex: ^* matches null string many times in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/^* <-- HERE [B]domain.ext[/B]$/ at /usr/share/perl5/PMG/Utils.pm line 1590. (500)

What am I doing wrong?
Thanks in advance.

 

[sterzy]

Well ^* does not really make sense as a regex. * is a quantifier and needs something to quantify. It matches whatever is before it zero to many times. ^ just matches the beginnings of lines so this can only be matched ones per line.

What is it that you want to match with your regex?

 

[abzsol]

Well ^* does not really make sense as a regex. * is a quantifier and needs something to quantify. It matches whatever is before it zero to many times. ^ just matches the beginnings of lines so this can only be matched ones per line.

What is it that you want to match with your regex?

I just want to match everything that ends with domain.ext
I've always inserted it in PMG 7 as *domain.ext, now with version 8 is not working.

 

[sterzy]

I've always inserted it in PMG 7 as *domain.ext, now with version 8 is not working.

We added a check to see if your regex is valid with PMG 8, so this regex never really worked, the check just didn't exist.

What you could do is this: .*domain\.ext. .* will match any letter or digit zero or multiple times. You'll also need to escape the . as otherwise it matches any character. So .*domain.ext is a valid regex but will also match .*domainPext and .*domain4ext for example. You can check how your regex works on a site like regex101 [1].

[1]: https://regex101.com/

 

[abzsol]

We added a check to see if your regex is valid with PMG 8, so this regex never really worked, the check just didn't exist.

What you could do is this: .*domain\.ext. .* will match any letter or digit zero or multiple times. You'll also need to escape the . as otherwise it matches any character. So .*domain.ext is a valid regex but will also match .*domainPext and .*domain4ext for example. You can check how your regex works on a site like regex101 [1].

[1]: https://regex101.com/

Thanks @sterzy
So I have to edit all the regexes I entered incorrectly with version 7?

 

[sterzy]

So I have to edit all the regexes I entered incorrectly with version 7?

Well, probably yeah, otherwise they probably don't do what you expect them to do.

 

[abzsol]

Well, probably yeah, otherwise they probably don't do what you expect them to do.

Thanks again!