Great info and thanks Len.. now I've got it.. regex possibly means regular expression? I agree on your analysis and it falls within 'good common sense' ;-).
Thanks, ~Rick Len Conrad wrote: > >> Ok Len, >> >> For us laymen out here.. what duh.. is unanchored regex? > > > You can anchor regex to the BOL or EOL, meaning the search for match > will only be applied to the the BOL or EOL data. As opposed to > non-anchored regex will will scan every single byte, say, in your 30 meg > mpeg porno clip. > > what's nice about blocking by .ext of the attachment, you don't have to > scan entire attachement. > >> is that for scanning non text based email or specific to imgate stuff? > > > It's Regular Expression stuff. > > Unix is very strong in text processing tools, and the foundation is the > regex lib's built into the OS, or into language like PERL. > > I don't know if Scott has put full regex support into his products, and > I'm pretty sure Imail's pattern searching is not full regex. > > anyway, one should try to match on headers or attachement type or file > type of the attachment, since the scanning target is small and fast. > Only as last resort, scan the entire body. In fact, if you conclude > that you can only block by scanning the entire body, then you're > probably sscrewed, unless you have tons of surplus computer power to > waste on full body scanning. > > Len > > ___________________________________________________________________ Virus Scanned and Filtered by http://www.FamHost.com E-Mail System. 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/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
