G'day higginss20,

Welcome to the Monastery.

I think, in the first instance, you should follow ++roboticus' advice and contact Barracuda with a different question.

As a general rule, using a regular expression to match an exact string is a poor and inefficient choice. It would be much better to just use 'eq', or 'ne' to check for a non-match (see "perlop: Equality Operators"): 

if ($email_address eq 'first.last@example.com') {
    # OK - process normally
}
else {
    # Possibly not OK - phishing check
}

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If $displayname has more than one email address, use a hash and check with exists: 

my %valid_email_for = (
    'Display Name' => {
        'first.last@example.com' => 1,
        'first.last@example.net' => 1,
        'first.last@example.org' => 1,
    },
);
...
if (exists $valid_email_for{$displayname}{$email_address}) {
    # OK - process normally
}
else {
    # Possibly not OK - phishing check
}

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— Ken

In reply to Re: Regex Expression to filter email for Barracuda Email Appliance by kcott
in thread Regex Expression to filter email for Barracuda Email Appliance by higginss20

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