I notice in some rules examples, especially single words, a space /s is somtimes added to the beginning and/or end. How does this help/hinder?
thanks, Tom ----- Original Message ----- From: "R. Scott Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 9:35 AM Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] "Send to mailbox" doesn't work... > > >Okay, as I said in my last email, the rules are catching emails that, as far > >as I can tell, don't match the criteria I have in the rule. Email with no > >attachments are being trapped. > > IMail doesn't have rules that can detect whether or not there are > attachments, so you have to write such rules yourself. However, you have > to be careful (as with any filtering) not to have false positives. For > example, if you just filter on "NAME =", you will catch lots of HTML E-mail > (not to mention this message, if I hadn't added that space in there), even > though you won't see "NAME =" in the E-mail. > > >Email with attachments that are okay are being trapped. I can't have > >this. The rules have got to be flawless. Why > >aren't they? > > There's an old saying, "Computers don't make mistakes, people do." How > about showing us the rules that you are using? > > -Scott > --- > Declude: Anti-virus, Anti-spam and Anti-hijacking solutions for > IMail. http://www.declude.com > > --- > [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.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/ > 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/
