Mike,
I've heard of that before, but have not been able to duplicate (been a while
since I tried!). If you have a mailbox, then it can be read, to see the
message and figure out why it got there. You got what David needed, without
as much work! But yours are spread out among all the users (as if it needed
a nul.fwd file, which it should not!) so you now have a lot of places to
look. Just an idea: make a nul.fwd file and have it point to your 'spambox'
address (put copy in all affected user folders, too). Now you have a catch
all for any that are going to 'NUL'.
Rules are very strict in that they do exactly what you tell them. But
sometimes we tell them to do what we don't want to do, but don't know that
at the time. That is why a destination mailbox can be important, to review a
variety of email and see how/why it got there. Just sending to NUL gives you
little chance to fully test your rules.
Yes, I think it is a good idea to review your rules. One, to find out why
you get a user-nul.mbx and two, to make sure those rules are still valid and
three, to add any new techniques and rules you learned or need.
Daniel Donnelly
________________________________________________________
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Delp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 1:59 PM
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] mail bouncing with attachements
> Dan,
>
> I thought that the messages should have been deleted, but I must have
> something wrong in my rules file. I get user-nul folders with the
messages
> in them. I have NUL.mbx and NUL.uid in the users folder.
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Daniel Donnelly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 10:19 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] mail bouncing with attachements
> >
> >
> > Actually, NUL means 'delete' so it is highly unlikely you
> > will find the
> > mailbox or the message. Your Rule found something in the
> > attachment that
> > matched, so it did exactly what you asked it too.
> >
> > Might I suggest, especially since you believe you are having delivery
> > problems, that you either remove all rules, or change them so
> > that mail does
> > not go to 'NUL' but to a catch mailbox. If you do the latter,
> > then you will
> > have a place to look when someone says 'I did not get may
> > mail' and a Rule
> > might have caught it. Bet this mailbox begins filling pretty
> > fast with your
> > 'missing' email!
> >
> > Daniel Donnelly
> > ________________________________________________________
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Mike Delp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 7:11 PM
> > Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] mail bouncing with attachements
> >
> >
> > > The mail was delivered to the sub folder NUL in the cindy
> > mailbox. A
> > > filtering rule must have placed it there. Look in the
> > users folders under
> > > cindy, and you should see a nul folder. I have quite a few
> > of them with
> > > filtered virus messages, like the HAHA one.
> > >
> > > Look at your rules.ima for a rule that excludes the
> > attachment that you
> > > sent.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: djk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 5:14 PM
> > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] mail bouncing with attachements
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Can someone tell me what happened to this email.
> > > >
> > > > I sent it with attachment but it never arrived and it is
> > not in spool.
> > > >
> > > > SMTPD (0103018A) [24.27.192.207] MAIL FROM: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > 20010228 181023 127.0.0.1 SMTPD (0103018A)
> > > > [24.27.192.207] RCPT TO:
> > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > 20010228 181025 127.0.0.1 SMTPD (00E001A8)
> > > > [207.247.24.244] connect
> > > > 207.247.24.244 port 2499
> > > > 20010228 181034 127.0.0.1 SMTPD (0103018A) [24.27.192.207]
> > > > d:\IMAIL\spool\D855f18a.SMD 474394
> > > > 20010228 181034 127.0.0.1 SMTP (1140) processing
> > > > d:\IMAIL\spool\Q855f18a.SMD
> > > > 20010228 181038 127.0.0.1 SMTP (1140) ldeliver
> > > > mailserver.florida.com
> > > > cindy-NUL (1) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 0
> > > > 20010228 181038 127.0.0.1 SMTP (1140) finished
> > > > d:\IMAIL\spool\Q855f18a.SMD status=1
> > > >
> > > >
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