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[pipersdell]

emailselections......

Question but if you do not know the answer, please do not speculate.

Back in the days of DOS & Windows 3.1 the wild card symbol used to be the asterisk...  *.

Question....Does the  wildcard, the asterisk, still work with Win 10? I ask this because in my mail filter I use this wildcard in front of emailselections,

i.e. *emailselections, to send anything containing this term direct to my deleted folder. 

Problem is that it doesnot allways seem to work.

So is the asterisk still the current wildcard?

Regards

Tony

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Yes, asterisk represents the wildcard character when used with the appropriate webmail filter Condition , i.e. Matches,  however it seems webmail now rewrites those conditions, for example:

Conditions	Rewritten as
Matches: emailselections*	Starts with: emailselections
Matches: *emailselections	Ends with: emailselections

Are you able to provide a screenshot of your filter rule with an example

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of when it did not work as expected.

[pipersdell]

Hello Very insightful person.

Screen shot as requested.

Tony

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Is that in Thunderbird or another email client?

[pipersdell]

Thunderbird

[用心棒 · Accepted solution]

Wildcard character has no special meaning in a Contains condition, remove the asterisks around emailselections

[pipersdell]

Dear Very Insightful Person,

I think that I have tried this but I'll do a brand new message rule & see how it works out.

Usually get a few from them over a couple of days so I'll be able to check its' effectiveness soon.

Regards

Tony

[Kain_W]

Hi there pipersdell,

Thanks for your post and welcome to the community.

Let us know if you require further assistance on this if any issues appear.

Regards,

[pipersdell]

Dear very insightful person.

So far so good. Taking out the wildcard has 'SO FAR' worked. Thanks

Regards

Tony

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That is good to read.