I suspect it is because it did not have a file name like book1.pif which is
what your rule is looking for. Since the file had the ending .xls.pif, the
rule saw only the .xls, and stopped looking. I've seen this also on Postfix
machines using the body check rules.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Andrus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 8:34 PM
Subject: [IMail Forum] Rules.ima passing files
> I just received a file attachment that was named book1.xls.pif
>
> I have a rules.ima with the following line:
> B~name=".*\.pif"\s:NUL
>
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>
> So why is it that the message got thru? What should my rules.ima contain
to
> prevent such attachments?
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> Brian Andrus
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