Are content filters and message filters case insensitive?

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Updated:July 22, 2014
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Are content filters and message filters case insensitive?

Both content filters and message filters allow you to apply actions to the messages you specify. Typically, filter rules and actions use regular expressions that are case sensitive.  Case insensitive matching can be applied to both types of filters. In either case,  the regular expression token ( (?i) ) is used.

For content filters, simply add the token via the GUI:




For message filters

if(body-contains("(?i)lottery")) {
   drop();
}

Note: The regular expressions for the mail-from and rcpt-to  filter rules are case insensitive by default.

Revision History

Revision Publish Date Comments
1.0
18-Jul-2014
Initial Release
TAC Authored

Contributed by Cisco Engineers

  • Chris Haag and Enrico Werner
    Cisco TAC Engineers.

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