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Matching All Email Address Formats

Different email servers use different addressing protocols and consequently email addresses have different formats. But with careful planning, you can define lists of included or excluded email addresses that match against any targeted address, regardless of the email format used.

To define a 'universal' email address, simply enter the basic keywords such as a person's name and the Internet domain, separated by spaces and omitting any protocol-specific elements such as @ or p=.

Example

You want to match against any emails sent to Spencer Rimmel of Unipraxis plc. To do this, add the following item to your list of included email addresses:

rimmel unipraxis

This matches against all of the following formats because both keywords are present in each format:

Note: CA DLP interprets a space between keywords as an AND operator.

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