Cal,
Actually I think the orginal rule was working EXACTLY as you had told it to!
Look at what the rule was looking for and what Davids message had and you
can see the match. One does have to be _very careful_ in selecting the text
you expect it to use, as it can and will catch a word within a word (as you
found!). You might have instead, changed the rule to use case matching (=)
only, and it whould have worked as you might have expected! The 'leading
space' won't hurt as it now will have to match exactly
" National Services" (hard return and quotes used, so the space can be
seen). Of course, if my signature contains "Dan's National Services", your
rule will catch that, too. Trailing spaces can be used, but again,
carefully.
Do you remember the rule, 'There is always an exception to any rule'?????
Daniel Donnelly
Ipswitch Technical Support
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Cal Frye" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 1:08 PM
Subject: [IMail Forum] Overzealous rules.ima
> I finally found the rule which has been catching David Brenner's
> (International Services Network Corporation) posts to this list and
sending
> them to my spambox--It was:
>
> B~National Services:Spambox I changed to =, and added a leading space.
In
> general, I think leading and trailing spaces are important for this
> application.
>
> Sorry David! I don't know where the rule came from--I got a core set from
> Dusty and have added to it as I went along. It's embarrassing enough to
> catch legitimate email in the filter (not all our users understand why we
> filter at all), but doubly so in this case!
>
> --Cal Frye, Western Reserve Academy, Hudson, Ohio
> "Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. " -
> Gail Godwin
>
>
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