Thanks Scott! It is appreciated.. this is for a non profit org.. sooo they do not have the money to spend on a virus scanner.. so just trying to make the best of the situation they have.... Do you think it would be better to just drop the filter?
Dustin ----- Original Message ----- From: "R. Scott Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 11:48 AM Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] rules.ima & orules.ima > > >Hey everyone, I had the below rules in my rules.ima and my orules.ima (Imail > >8 and W2k SP4) > > ... > >B~na_me=.*\.com:NUL > ... > > >Now my hope was to stop any emails with these attachments from going in or > >out from my server. Now as soon as I put this in my outbound rules, I can > >not reply to messages... I get and error like: > > This is one of the problems inherent with filters -- false positives. > > HTML E-mail usually has "na_me=", followed later by something like > "www.example.com". It is impossible to create a filter that will > accurately catch attachments (that's really a job for a virus scanner or > similar program), but if you are careful, you can do a good job at it. > > For example, filtering for "filena_me=" will significantly reducing the > false positives, while catching most (but not all) E-mails with .com > attachments. > > -Scott > --- > Declude JunkMail: The advanced anti-spam solution for IMail mailservers. > Declude Virus: Catches known viruses and is the leader in mailserver > vulnerability detection. > Find out what you have been missing: Ask for a free 30-day evaluation. > > --- > [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] > > > 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/
