What are some examples of inbound message filters?

Here are some examples of regular expressions for filter patterns of inbound message filters.

Note: Use the ".*" wildcard characters to match 0 or more occurrences of any character.

Filter Type

Regular Expression Example

File attachment

Attachments that are files with either .pdf, .txt, or .html file extensions:

.pdf|.txt|.html

Header

Emails with headers that contain the string Gentle Reminder:

  • ^Gentle Reminder[A-Za-z0-9._%+-]*

  • ^Gentle Reminder.*

Mime attachment

Content Type header with values such as text/plain, text/html, image/jpeg, or application/octet-stream:

text/plain|text/html|image/jpeg|application/octet-stream

Reply to

Emails that are sent by the support team:

  • support_[A-Za-z0-9._%+-]*@company\.com

  • support_.*@company\.com

Sender

Emails that are sent by an Oracle employee:

  • [A-Za-z0-9._%+-]*@oracle\.com

  • .*@oracle\.com

Subject

Email subjects with string AutoReply:

  • ^Auto Reply: [A-Za-z0-9._%+-]*

  • ^Auto Reply.*