I have had a theory... as yet unproven... that mal-formed rules can preclude
the evaluation of other rules in the file... There have been cases where I
thought this was going on, but the failure seemed to be intermittent so I
was not able to isolate it.
_M
----- Original Message -----
From: Gordon Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, May 19, 2000 15:16
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] problem with rules.ima
>
> Great suggestion (tag in header RE which rule matched)!
>
> As for the filename= thing, until this morning, that is the ONLY
> rule I had in place -- and I've been catching v b s files (real
> ILY attachments)! It works like a charm for me.
>
> Since it doesn't work for at least several other folks, however,
> there must be some other variable that interacts with the rules.
> Dan has had exactly the right syntax for two weeks, but it won't
> work for him. I wonder if we need to do a better job of briefly
> describing our systems? Maybe that would help spot a pattern.
>
> (Thanks for IMFilter, by the way!)
>
> Gordon
>
> -----
> Madscientist wrote:
> >
> > It would be nice to know that you really caught these with the filename=
and
> > not some other rule you may have in place.
> >
> > I keep asking IPSwitch to include a tag in the header of messages that
are
> > redirected by their rules so that we can look at the header and see
which
> > rule fired to move the message. That would really clear up this
confusion,
> > and would help when fixing rules that catch things we don't want to
catch.
> >
> > It seems like such a simple thing. I wish they weren't so deaf.
> >
> > Maybe if a few more people ask for this they'll hear it.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Jonathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Friday, May 19, 2000 13:57
> > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] problem with rules.ima
> >
> > > That's really strange, to my knowledge, filename = has worked
relatively
> > > reliably for us - at least to my knowledge. We've caught a few with
it,
> > and
> > > I haven't heard any disaster reports -- I just assumed we were
getting
> > all
> > > there was to be had ..
> > >
> > > Jonathan
> > >
> > > At 11:44 AM 5/19/2000 -0600, you wrote:
> > > >On 11:22 AM 05/19/2000 -0600, it would appear that Dan Spangenberg
wrote:
> > > >>My rules.ima file is setup and working fine, it will catch and
forward
> > based
> > > >>on keywords just as it should.
> > > >>But I can't seem to get a rule in that will correctly filter any
.v$b$s
> > > >>file.
> > > >>
> > > >>I have tried the many different versions posted here, but none seem
to
> > work.
> > > >>I want to filter out any and all .v$b$s files
> > > >>
> > > >>I currently have the following:
> > > >>
> > > >>B~filename=".*\.v$b$s":filtered
> > > >>
> > > >>(remove all the $ above to see what I actually am using)
> > > >>
> > > >>Any ideas?
> > > >
> > > >We have been unable to get the "filename=" identifier to function
> > > >reliably. As such, we use
> > > >B~\p v b s:virus sans spaces of course. We use \p as /. also does
not
> > > >appear to work correctly and a simple . will act as a wildcard
causing
> > the
> > > >search to be too exhaustive and all inclusive; in short, using .
caused
> > > >too many false catches.
> > > >
> > > >Tyran Ormond
> > > >LAN Technician/Programmer
> > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > >
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