I am, and also I'm using every other version of the rule that someone has
said works for them.... :-)
Dan
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Gary Cook
Sent: Friday, May 19, 2000 3:09 PM
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Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] problem with rules.ima
Run them both.
----- Original Message -----
From: Dan Spangenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, May 19, 2000 3:59 PM
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] problem with rules.ima
> OK lets beat this horse a bit more, don't think he's quite dead just yet
:-)
>
> When I use your rule only, B~\pv b s:filtered (sans spaces)
>
> it won't catch an email out of Outlook 2000 but it will catch out of
Outlook
> express 5.0
>
> When I modify it to look at the header: H~\pv b s:filtered (sans spaces)
>
> then it will catch Outlook 2000 but not Outlook express.
>
> What a nightmare. I guess we just have to run both rules to look at both
> header and body.
>
> Any comments?
>
> Dan
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tyran Ormond
> Sent: Friday, May 19, 2000 2:31 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] problem with rules.ima
>
>
> On 01:43 PM 05/19/2000 -0600, it would appear that Dan Spangenberg wrote:
> >OK I think I have figured out at least a portion of this puzzle. I spent
> >over an hour on the phone with a very knowledgeable Imail technician this
> >morning. We did many test emails, he sent me emails with a .v$b$s file
> >attached. This is rule I was using:
> >
> >B~filename=".*\.v$b$s":filtered (actual rule has "$" removed)
> >
> >This rule would catch his emails, but it would not catch emails that I
> sent,
> >(routed to an SMTP server outside my domain). This was very puzzling to
> us.
> >Upon examining the actual raw header text of the emails, we found that
they
> >were different. He was sending his emails from outlook express and I
from
> >Outlook 2000. I'm not sure what these two programs do different to emails
> >and attachments, but something.
> >
> >We then modified the rule to look at the header, instead of the body, and
> lo
> >and behold it caught emails from either program!
> >
> >New rule: H~filename=".*\.v$b$s":filtered (actual rule has "$"
> >removed)
>
> Just tried the H~ rule described above and it also fails to catch
> testbed.zip.v$b$s. This file was sent using Eudora 4.3 registered version
> to my server and then back to me. Enabling my B~\pv b s:virus rule (sans
> spaces) and placing it after the H~ rule (just to make sure it isn't
> malformed and possibly causing a break in the rule check) the server
caught
> it immediately.
>
> Tyran Ormond
> LAN Technician/Programmer
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