How is this spam hiding from mutt search?

[Sam Kuper]

On Tue, Feb 01, 2022 at 10:16:51AM -0800, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 01, 2022 at 10:36:29AM -0500, Ofer Inbar wrote:
>> One feature they all share is that "support_id:" prefix in the fake
>> email address.
> 
> The ':' isn't allowed in the address local part, so I believe the mutt
> parser is rejecting the email address.  Because of that there is no
> address stored in the "from" list internally.
> 
> You may have to use something like ~h or =h to find the prefix.

I'm going to write the terms "colon", "punctuation", "regex", and
"regular expression" here, so that anyone searching the mailing list
archives for help with this issue in future will more easily be able to
find it.

Sam


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