If you open the %user%.mbx, you may find that the text string in that
message for the attachment does not include the quotation marks on either
end of the file's name, so your filter will not catch it. Sircam's a tricky
beast with its own smtp. I had to double up my filters; one set with
quotes, one without.
Thx,
D.
At 11:29 PM 8/7/01 -0700, you wrote:
>I suspect it is because it did not have a file name like book1.pif which is
>what your rule is looking for. Since the file had the ending .xls.pif, the
>rule saw only the .xls, and stopped looking. I've seen this also on Postfix
>machines using the body check rules.
> > I just received a file attachment that was named book1.xls.pif
> >
> > I have a rules.ima with the following line:
> > B~name=".*\.pif"\s:NUL
> >
> >
> >
> > So why is it that the message got thru? What should my rules.ima contain
>to
> > prevent such attachments?
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