bug#23040: Resolved

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org> writes:

> The problem here is that recently some spam has started to come with
> extremely long "References" headers, and that the regular expression
> used in one of my scoring rules is sub-optimal when applied to such long
> strings.
>
> In particular, the leading dot in "<.+@[a-z0-9]+\\.rath\\.org>" first
> matches the entire reference header, and then emacs presumably has to
> backtrack character by character (or something like that).
>
> Fixing the rule by restricting the match to one message id fixes the
> problem: "<[^<>@]+@[a-z0-9]+\\.rath\\.org>"

Could you submit a patch for this problem? 

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