According to the manual, if I want to include a period in my search string
is should be preceded by a backslash like so: \. Without the backslash, a
period is a wild card for any character. Unfortunately, \. still functions
just like a lone period (running version 6.03). I circumvented this by
using \p because the \. was catching too many attachments as Henrie de Bres
has pointed out and in fact all KB articles use \p (as far as I could find).
Example:
b~\pv b s:virus catches very very few legal attachments or otherwise.
b~\.v b s:virus catches most far too many legal attachments, so many that I
could spend all day transferring legal messages. (both sans spaces of course)
Not really an issue if one only wants to trap vb scripts, use \p. However,
I've now been given the green light to trap Word documents.
b~\pd o c:virus catches most HTML formatted email due to the document type
header.
b~\.d o c:virus catches even more mail.
Does anyone have \. in their rules file that is actually working properly,
if you're forwarding to nul you have no way of knowing as the message,
legitimate or not, is gone. If you're using the above format
b~rule:mailbox (not nul) and you have \. in a rule that appears to be
working, please let me know.
Tyran Ormond
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