Pattern matching in filters

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trusnock
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Pattern matching in filters

Post by trusnock »

Hello,
I would like to create a filter that alerts us when certain patterns are matched in an outbound message (for example, a social security number in an unencrypted message) for corporate policy enforcement. I don't see any examples in the documentation, Knowledge Base, or forum for doing pattern matching other than a wildcard "*" character, even for a filter pattern file MEFILTER-GENERAL.TXT. All of the examples contain only specific strings to be matched.

One example of the pattern I would like to match is the regular expression [0-9][0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9] to detect a social security number.

Is there any way to do this without writing a custom MTA pickup event?

Thanks,
-Tom Rusnock

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Re: Pattern matching in filters

Post by MailEnable-Ian »

Hi,

Please find an example below on how to create a scripted filter using regular expressions:

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Dim regex
Dim hasmatch

Set regex = New RegExp

With regex
    .Pattern = "test"
    .IgnoreCase = True
    .Global = True
End With

hasmatch = regex.Test("%SUBJECT%")

if hasmatch then
    FilterResult=1
else
    FilterResult=0
end if
Please be aware that regular expressions will only work using literal values (ie subject, sender, recipients, ipaddress, please review the documentation for a full list) and will not work for Criteriamet items. For Criteriamet items you will need to use wild cards.
Regards,

Ian Margarone
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