Invalid preceding regular expression given by Sieve

Question

I am attempting to write a filter that matches the regex ^[a-zA-Z0-9_.+-]+@(?:(?:[a-zA-Z0-9-]+\.)?[a-zA-Z]+\.)?(example)\.com$. (I want to capture every email that is from a specific domain). However, it keeps returning the error Invalid preceding regular expression. The expression works correctly so I am unsure why this error is occuring. This is the first time I've written a sieve filter so am I missing something?

Try ^[a-zA-Z0-9_.+-]+@(([a-zA-Z0-9-]+\.)?[a-zA-Z]+\.)?(example)\.com$ — Wiktor Stribiżew
@WiktorStribiżewThat worked! Thank you. What was the issue with my original expression? — RHPT

Wiktor Stribiżew Wiktor Stribiżew · Accepted Answer · 2020-04-16T13:17:50

You may use

^[a-zA-Z0-9_.+-]+@(([a-zA-Z0-9-]+\.)?[a-zA-Z]+\.)?(example)\.com$

It appeas that the regex should comply with the POSIX ERE regex syntax that does not allow non-capturing groups.

So the solution was to replace all (?: with ( in this regex.

Invalid preceding regular expression given by Sieve

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