The Issue: The rule does not seem to trigger or catch the emails when they arrive. Am I formatting the wildcard incorrectly, or does the “with words in the subject” condition treat the asterisk (*) as a literal string rather than a wildcard operator?
Could you please advise on the correct syntax or approach to achieve this filtering in eM Client?
I am not completely clear what you are trying to do.
Please give a screenshot of how you have set the rule.
You have to say where message is from & what is to happen
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¡Saludos desde Sevilla la soleada en España!
¡Mis mejores deseos y mantente a salvo!
I would like to create a rule that matches a pattern such as:
Neu: * Treffer für *
and then moves those emails to a folder.
From my tests, it seems that the “with words in the subject” condition either treats the asterisk (*) as a literal character or matches any of the specified phrases instead of the whole pattern.
Does eM Client support wildcards or regular expressions in subject rules?
Can anyone help with this or suggest the correct way to create such a rule?
I am trying to set up a specific subject filter in eM Client but am running into an issue with how the rule logic handles pattern matching.
My Goal
Sender: The messages could be from anyone; I only want to filter based on specific words in the subject line.
Target Pattern: I want to filter subjects that follow a specific string pattern, for example: "PO 001 MIDSOLE", "PO 002 MIDSOLE", etc. The number could be random from my customer.
When I attempt to use a standard wildcard rule like "PO * MIDSOLE", it does not work. It appears eM Client treats the asterisk (*) as a literal character rather than a wildcard.
If I separate them into two conditions—"PO" and "MIDSOLE"—the filter works, but it is far too broad. Because it matches any subject containing both strings anywhere in the text, it incorrectly triggers on unrelated subjects like:
I suspect that standard wildcards are not supported natively in this field.
Does eM Client support wildcards or Regular Expressions (Regex) within its subject rule criteria? If not, is there a recommended workaround to strictly match a string that starts with “PO”, followed by a variable PO number, and ends with “MIDSOLE”?
