[imp] Inserting [ characters in a filter

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting snah <snah at mailserv.chem.kuleuven.ac.be>:

> How can I insert [, ] and ? characters in a filter. I want to filter
> mesages that have "[SPAM?]" in the subject line, but it doesn't seem to
> work. I can only filter on the word "SPAM".

I assume you are using IMP 3.x filtering - if so, you should escape those
characters with a backslash (i.e. if you want to search for [, you 
should enter
'\[' in the search string).

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at bigworm.colorado.edu]
The University of Colorado at Boulder