Grant, At this time your customer has done about as much as he can with the multiple boxes for each rule. I have passed this on to the dev team for a future dev cycle. Hopefully we will see this soon.
Eric S ----- Original Message ----- From: "Grant Griffith - IMail" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 9:24 AM Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] X-IMail rules header line > Hello Eric, > > Here are comments from my client. I am just sending what he is giving me. > > <Snip from Client> > It's not really a 2nd filter "option". > Using 2 rules filters is a work around that I came up with. > > My objective here is to understand which of the mailing list rules tripped > up the > individual, so that I can easily advise the sender how to avoid getting > filtered in the > future. > BTW - The rules are not always about cussing - for instance, I'm trying to > discourage > "Pressure washing" on the "Window cleaning" list, and vice versa. > > Anyway, I have several lists with rules files all directing "violations" to > the user > mailbox "filtered". > I read the filtered messages daily, and try to determine whether it's my > fault - or the > senders fault - that the message got filtered. > > Sometimes that's real easy, but it can get confusing or complicated, and on > occasion, I've > had to use the dreaded process of elimination - deleting half the rules, > successively to > find the offending line. > > I had high hopes that X-IMail-Rules header lines would speed up these daily > investigations, and after the upgrade was disappointed to realize they were > not going to > be added to the headers of trapped mailing list messages. > > But I discovered that if I copied a rules.ima file to the directory for the > user > "filtered", then the X-IMail-Rule header would be added the 2nd time - > because the 2nd > rules.ima file was for a user, not a mailing list. > > The only problem with that strategy is that I have several lists, with > different rules.ima > files, and I can't possibly reconcile them all into a universal 2nd filter. > > So, my busiest mailing list filter serves as the 2nd filter - and I only get > useful > X-IMail-Rule header lines when THAT filter traps a message. > > The alternative seems to be to replace the one user mailbox- "filtered" - > with several > user mailboxes - one for each mailing list, and each with its own rules.ima > file, > identical to the corresponding mailing list rules.ima file. > > Is there a better way to direct a trapped mailing list message somewhere > along with an > X-IMail-Rule header line? > > Or are these 2nd filters the only way to go? > </snip from client> > > Sincerely, > Grant Griffith, Vice President > EI8HT LEGS Web Management Co., Inc. > http://www.getafreewebsite.com > 877-483-3393 > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Eric Shanbrom > Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 4:37 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] X-IMail rules header line > > > well, this might get a bit more complex as the listserver does not add the > X-IMail-Rule header. Can he be a bit more specific as to what he wants to > accomplish? Give us a Sequence of Events then we might be able to come up > with something. > > Eric S > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Grant Griffith - IMail" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "imail" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 4:04 PM > Subject: [IMail Forum] X-IMail rules header line > > > > Hello All, > > > > I have a client that uses lists heavily on our server. He uses rules > files > > to enforce certain requirements for his lists and now that we upgraded to > > IMail 7.14 is experimenting with the new 2nd filter options. > > > > his message is below, does anyone know how I can get the X-Imail header to > > work on Lists? > > > > Sincerely, > > Grant Griffith, Vice President > > EI8HT LEGS Web Management Co., Inc. > > http://www.getafreewebsite.com > > 877-483-3393 > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Gary Mauer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 1:43 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: RE: Coop Advertising Application > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > I would still like to see if there is a better way to filter mailing list > > rules than what > > I am doing - setting up rules for a list, AND setting up rules for the > > destination mailbox > > (just to see the header line telling which rule captured a message). > > > > The problem is that I have several lists with different rules dumping > > filtered mail into > > one mailbox, and so it will be difficult, if not impossible to properly > > maintain the 2nd > > filter. > > (It will be better than nothing, though.) > > > > Could you ask on the IMail list if anyone is able to get the X-IMail rules > > header line to > > work for mailing lists, simply by having filtered messages sent to the > > correct mailbox? > > Maybe there's something we're missing. > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > > > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
