IMfilter is worth it for $20 ... it will do it all for you, including
placing a .fwd file in every user folder.
see http://www.microneil.com/imfilter.html or the list of 3rd party
utilities for IMail on the ipswitch support page.
At 11:24 PM 05/20/2000 -0700, you wrote:
>Bobby,
>
>I set up the rule in our primary domain, test it, when it looks good I copy
>it to the root Imail directory renaming it globrules.ima then while at an NT
>command prompt, and in the root Imail directory (which is not pathed just to
>protect me from my own stupidity) I have a batch file named globrules.cmd
>that I run. It is not perfect, it tries and copies the rules file to a
>couple of not needed places but it doesn't blow the system up or anything
>and is bloody quick when you are at risk for some security threat or new
>virus out there and have LOTS of domains.
>
>But it does seem that each virtual domain (when using multiple IP's, one for
>each domain) needs its own rules file.
>
>The batch file is simply:
>
>@echo off
>for /f %%d in ('dir /a:d /b') do copy \imail\globrules.ima
>\imail\%%d\rules.ima
>
>It basically says for every sub-directory it finds in the current directory,
>copy (and rename at the same time) the globrules.ima file to each of those
>sub-directories.
>
>If you run it *not* inside a batch file but by just typing it at the command
>prompt, use single % signs instead of double.
>
>
>Randy E. Reinhardt
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>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bobby Cannon
>Sent: Friday, May 19, 2000 1:48 PM
>To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
>Subject: [IMail Forum] Attachment rules
>
>
>Hello,
>
>I know we've beaten this death, but this should quite simple.
>
>I have the following rule set up which forwards all mail w/v*b*s attachment
>to
>a virus mailbox at [EMAIL PROTECTED] B~attachment;
>filename=".*\.v*b*s":virus I initially set this up to test it by putting the
>rules.ima file in the root directory of domain A, which is a virtual domain.
>It worked great, so now I want to apply it to all 50 of my virtual domains.
>I tried copying it to \imail directory and nothing. I stopped and started
>services, nothing. I put the rules.ima file in each domains root directly
>and it works fine. I can live with that, until I want to change a rule,
>then it's copy and paste hell. Did I miss something? I was under the
>impression that placing the rules.ima file in the imail root directory would
>affect all domains. Please help. Thank you.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Bobby Cannon
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