On 11:48 AM 6/29/2001 -0400, it would appear that Jason Palmer wrote: >I'm sure it's starting to be obvious that I'm a new IMail admin as I may be >asking newbie questions, but I am trying to look at the online docs as well >has the help file in IMail. > >I want to be able to block .exe files (and probably .vbs along with some >others) for certian users. I also want to forward that edited mail message >with the .exe file to 'holding' mailbox. I saw the online docs on how to do >this but I must be missing something, as I can't get it to work. > >This is on a 7.0 IMail lab test server. > >1) Created the user 'foo'. >2) Went to rules tab of that user, clicked add. >3) Clicked 'External Text File', typed in filterexe and created it. >4) Went back and highlighted rule and clicked edit and put: > >B~name=".*\exe":abusebox > >This creates the filenamme filterexe.rul in the c:\Imail\users\foo directory > >5) In that users mailbox I created abusebox.fwd file and put the text >"abusebox" in it and saved it. > >When I send an email with a .exe attachment it gets to the users mail box >instead of being forwarded to abusebox. Some of the online docs say to >create an .ima file, but I didn't know if they are now called .rul files as >of 7.0? > >Thanks for the help Rename filterexe.rul to rules.ima and it should work with no problem. To filter using an external file (not worth the effort IMO), you would need a rules.ima file which contains: B~:filterexe:abusebox then you need file filterexe.rul containing name=".*\exe" I prefer to use one rules.ima file for the server and keep it up to date. Suspicious files are forwarded to abuse into either a spam or virus box and dealt with case by case. Total traffic to abuse tends to run around 40 messages a week in my case. Tyran Ormond Programmer/LAN Technician Central Valley Water [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
