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I'm looking to delete all mail addressed from "root@", where the address could originate from any domain. Am I right in thinking the line below would achieve this? [using sendmail]

:0 * ^From.root*

/dev/null

Or if I wanted to move to a folder, will this work and automatically create the folder (imap syncable)

:0 * ^From.root*

ExampleFolder

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Will delete the mail : 

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* ^From:.*root@.*
/dev/null

Will create the folder and move the mail to it (you still need to subscribe to the folder over IMAP)

:0
* ^From:.*root@.*
ExampleFolder
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    The trailing .* is superfluous, albeit mostly harmless. Do you really intend to allow exactly one arbitrary character between From: and root@?
    – tripleee
    May 14, 2013 at 19:10

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