I agree that the documentation regarding this was confusing, and I thought it would work the same way that you had hoped it to.
However, in my situation, the way it works is best because filtering for spam allows you to have a rules.ima for the entire domain (one file in one location) that simple redirects suspected spam to a special mailbox of the recipient. I'm sure that in other situations, this would not be ideal. However, one thing that is documented but I would like to put my opinion in about is that if a message matches a rule in your domain rules.ima file and directs a message to a specific users mailbox - I wish that the users rules would then be applied which give the users ultimate control over how their mail is handled - and it is their mail, we just run the server. Many people are not wanting their email filtered for spam (even if a message is never lost but simply directed to a seperate mailbox under their account) and adding a rule to their rules.ima for their account would accomplish this if those rules would be scanned. But I understand how it works and am working with it. >From: "Ronnie Morgan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: RE: Re[2]: [IMail Forum] "Send to mailbox" doesn't work... >Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 09:13:07 -0500 > >I have this thing working, but I must say that I'm completely dissatisfied >with how this works. I would like it for it to work as documented. The >docs says that if the rule is for a user, then "send to the mailbox" field >will go to that users mailbox. And if the rule is for a host, the field is >for the userid of where you want the message to go. > >This nonsense of putting .fwd files in every one of my users directories >and >complete and utter stupidity, and I don't like having to do this AT ALL. A >system is supposed to save me work, not create it. And, now, anytime a new >user is added to the system, I have to make sure that the .fwd file is >added >to their directory. Complete nonsense. > >And on top of that, now that I have this working, and can see the messages >that supposedly meet the criteria, there are a lot of messages that should >not have been forwarded to the account I have it going to. Most of the >messages do meet the criteria, but the few that don't should not have been >forwarded, and I have no idea why it is. > >I'm very unhappy with Imail right now. But I guess you get what you pay >for. Sorry to be so blunt, but it's frustrating when you have to apply >workarounds to fix a documented feature. And it seems I have to do that a >lot with Imail.... > >Ronnie > > > > >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 the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked >questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ _________________________________________________________________ Join the world�s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.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 the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
