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JeremyNicoll · 12 Aug 2019, 06:32 PM

> Regular expressions are, indeed, tricky if you are not used to them.

I think I am used to them. I'd noted before that they use POSIX Extended REs but when I tried to find that info again in their help system a few minutes ago I was surprised not to be able to. Searching in 'Help' for regex produced only 4 hits, all Sieve-related. See: https://www.fastmail.com/help/search/?q=regex

Also, if searching the Users & Aliases page did allow regex one might expect \. to find a literal dot in an alias value, and it does not seem to.

If on the other hand their normal message-search logic is in use, one would expect a value enclosed in quotes to work, and it doesn't.

However it now works, it is much less useful than a filtered display where you're only shown those aliases whose values contain the literal characters you type in the search box.

12 Aug 2019, 06:32 PM	#23
JeremyNicoll Essential Contributor Join Date: Dec 2017 Location: Scotland Posts: 484	> Regular expressions are, indeed, tricky if you are not used to them. I think I am used to them. I'd noted before that they use POSIX Extended REs but when I tried to find that info again in their help system a few minutes ago I was surprised not to be able to. Searching in 'Help' for regex produced only 4 hits, all Sieve-related. See: https://www.fastmail.com/help/search/?q=regex Also, if searching the Users & Aliases page did allow regex one might expect \. to find a literal dot in an alias value, and it does not seem to. If on the other hand their normal message-search logic is in use, one would expect a value enclosed in quotes to work, and it doesn't. However it now works, it is much less useful than a filtered display where you're only shown those aliases whose values contain the literal characters you type in the search box.