The line that caused your problem is: Subject Test 3

S~ tells the rules to check the subject line, so that's how I know where the
problem is.

To confirm this wasn't an interaction between Imail and Declude changing a
variable (as $ is sometimes used as a variable in coding), I put the line in
my rules.ima and it immediately started trapping all emails with anything in
the subject line - and I don't use Declude. 

Status: U
X-IMail-Rule: S~$:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
X-UIDL: 384504219

As $ is used as a variable in many routines it can come down to only 2
options 1) IpSwitch has a bug in it's code and by using $ it is catching ANY
CHARACTER in a subject line or 2) $ should have been included in the list of
character with special meaning in the rules section which it never has. 

An Ipswitch error either way.

Further testing shows that the rule does not trigger if you put in
S~\$:filter ....adding the \

I haven't tested the change with a $ in the subject line, but this appears $
should be a character added to the special meaning list in rules as it
appears to act as a wildcard for any character. It doesn't trigger if the
subject line is blank






-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Randy Armbrecht
Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 11:49 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [IMail Forum] Imail Rule problems....


Since 8.11 upgrade, we have several customers complaining that the filters
they setup via webmail are not working or are not working correctly; (a
general filter looking for the subject phrase "SPAM ??" has stopped working
in my own mailbox too)

Example - this one customer has several SUBJECT CONTAINS filters setup all
in one filter rule with OR statements with matches being deleted.  This
caused ALL of his email inbound to be auto-deleted.  We split the rules out
to separate rules and re-routed from NUL to a folder in his box to detect
which exact element is causing the issue and this is the rule/filter that is
tripped on our test message:

05:14 11:31 SMTP-(e664bf0600f61d3c) Inbound X-IMail-Rule: 

This is the header message of the test message sent by myself:

Received: from gws1 [192.168.1.101] by globalweb.net with ESMTP
  (SMTPD32-8.11) id A664BF0600F6; Fri, 14 May 2004 11:31:48 -0400
From: "GlobalWeb.net Support" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Test 3
Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 11:29:34 -0400
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510
Thread-Index: AcQ5yEKEo5Zf+5H3SNuHRYC1GonGgw==
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409
Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
X-Declude-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [192.168.1.101]
X-Spam-Tests-Failed: Whitelisted [0]
X-Note: Weight: [0]
X-Country-Chain: 
X-Note: This E-mail was sent from (Private IP) ([192.168.1.101]).
X-RCPT-TO: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Status: U
X-IMail-Rule: S~$:filter
X-UIDL: 384548193


What could possibly be causing this message to trip this dollar sign filter
?  


Sincerely,

Randy Armbrecht
Global Web SolutionsR, Inc.
804-346-5300 ext. 1
877-800-GLOBAL (4562) ext. 1
http://globalweb.net

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