To Chris and Daniel -- as they say on the PGA tour -- these guys are
good.
Removed a rule that looked for *.v*b*s and had the user send me the
original problem file with original name. Worked just fine.
Thanks,
John
Daniel Donnelly wrote:
>
> John,
>
> I, too, have seen rules 'catch' attachments. Due to encoding for attachments
> and IMail applying the rule to the body, the atttachment might contain a
> 'string' that happens to match one of your rules. I think one of them I saw
> was caught by the string 'X.vXbXs' (no X's! Just put them there so others
> with rules will get this message!).
>
> Daniel Donnelly
> ___________________________________
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Imail Forum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 10:24 AM
> Subject: [IMail Forum] PDF attachment oddity
>
> >Just had a strange thing happen: an instructor was sending a message
> >with an attached PDF file. Recipients included both local and remote
> >addresses. All remote addresses got the message and attachment.
> >However, for local addresses, it went to nul (ex. joesmith-nul). It
> >took some playing with, but after I deleted the first title line of the
> >document and recreated the PDF, it went through fine. I guess there was
> >a sequence of characters in the PDF that messed up Imail -- but only the
> >local delivery. Another day in e-mail land.
> >
> >John
> >
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