What's happening here is that the messages being forwarded to the viruscatcher user is being caught by the rule as well and is being sent to the submailbox you specified. You can live with this or you can change the name of your rules.ima to main.ima. Of course this will only catch messages bound for the main (inbox).
Eric S ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob McGregor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 10:30 AM Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Virus Catcher Does a message sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] go to the main mail box? Is there a file named viruscatcher.fwd in the viruscatcher folder in the users folder in the imail folder? On Wednesday, December 12, 2001 7:58 AM, Champaign Park District <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >My viruscatcher.fwd file contains the following address (I put in >domain.com in place of the actual one): >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >John Olden - Systems Administrator >Champaign Park District > >> Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 11:45:03 -0500 >> From: "Dave MacMillan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> What is in viruscatcher.fwd? >> >> Dave >> >> In reply to 10 Dec message from [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> >> >I've been following people messages about automatic rules for >> >intercepting messages that may contain files of certain types. I >> >have a little quirky problem with mine. >> >I set up the rules.ima file in my Imail directory like stated in >> >previous messages with viruscatcher at the end rather than NUL. >> >> >My rules.ima file looks similar to this. (extensions changes to >> >allow most people to receive this e-mail) >> >B~(name=".*\.XXX"\s):viruscatcher >> >B~(name=.*\.XXX\s):viruscatcher >> >B~(begin 6.*\.XXX\s):viruscatcher >> >> >Then I put a file in all of the user directories called >> >viruscatcher.fwd which contained the e-mail address to send the >> >potentially infected files to. This works and the messages are >> >being sent to the viruscatcher account but the messages are being >> >put in a new folder called "viruscatcher" rather than the Main >> >folder in that account. I delete this folder and it re-creates >> >it. >> >Any idea what I did wrong? >> >> >TIA >> >John Olden - Systems Administrator >> >Champaign Park District > > > >Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html >to be removed from this list. > >An Archive of this list is available at: >http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
