On 08:59 AM 7/18/2001 -0700, it would appear that Domain Administrator wrote:
>That's one of the many things that iMail didn't fix for 7.X. The manual
>says it will do what you wanted it to do... but it won't... you'll have to
>put a .fwd file in every mail box.... fun huh?
[snip rules sans fwd file creates a new mailbox]
Give me a break! Granted, the GUI does not work as intended but anyone who
follows this list or takes the time to use the knowledge base knows that
using the GUI for rules is just self-inflicted pain. Use a text
editor. It is extremely easy to populate thousands of mail boxes with the
needed fwd files if you are using server rules, just create the correct
forward file and run a bat file to populate the directories. I have
spambox and virus as the delivery boxes in my server wide rules file:
B~some rule:spambox
H~some other rule:virus
1. I create two text files: spambox.fwd and virus.fwd with
[EMAIL PROTECTED] on a single line in each file and drop the files in
the \users\ directory.
2. I create a bat file (which I call forward.bat) in the same location
with the following three lines:
For /R d:\IMail\Users %%I IN (.) DO COPY d:\IMail\Users\spambox.Fwd
%%I\spambox.Fwd
For /R d:\IMail\Users %%I IN (.) DO COPY d:\IMail\Users\virus.Fwd %%I\virus.Fwd
del d:\imail\users\abuse\*.fwd
Modify your paths as needed and make sure you have that third line or
you'll setup a nasty loop as abuse forwards all the filtered mail back to
itself!
3. I run the bat file, magic happens, and the directories are
populated. It took me longer to write this email than it will take to
actually do the above. Fun huh?
Tyran Ormond
Programmer/LAN Technician
Central Valley Water
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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