Using wildcards in email address lists

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You can use '*' wildcard characters in certain places in the domain name or address part of an email address in email address lists and account extra email addresses (LINK to How to add an account!!). Wildcard characters can be used:

1.As the domain part of the address. For example, "joe.bloggs@*" would match "joe.bloggs@example.com" and "joe.bloggs@some-other-company.net".

 

This is useful if you want to match a certain mailbox name at any domain.

2.At the start or end of the domain part of the address. For example, "webmaster@*.example.edu" would match "webmaster@maths.example.edu" and "webmaster@www.example.edu", and "webmaster@example.*" would match "webmaster@example.com" and "webmaster@example.net".

 

This is useful if you want to match addresses at a set of related domain names, for example if you have and use both "mycompany.com" and "mycompany.net" domains.

3.As the mailbox part of the address. For example, "*@important-customer.com" would match "mary@important-customer.com" and "chuck@important-customer.com".

 

This is often useful if you want to always allow or always block email from a certain organisation.

4.At the start or end of the mailbox part of the address. For example, "jo*@nasty-spammer.com" would match "johanna@nasty-spammer.com", "john@nasty-spammer.com", and "jo@nasty-spammer.com".

 

Some mail servers will deliver "will-*@example.com" to the mailbox for "will@example.com". You can use wildcards to match all these addresses.