in reply to Regex to match multiple words in an email subject
One problem with your action preparation code as given in the OP is that the | (vertical bar) operator has nothing with regular expressions. Rather, it is a bitwise-or operator that is used on multiple strings.
>perl -wMstrict -le "my $match = (\".*SSL.*\"|\".*SSL Certificate.*\"|\".*VASCO.*\"); print qq{'$match'}; " '.*WS_oooztificate.*'
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