I applied the "na me=.{1,64}\.ext" rule to my Imail 8.01 yesterday, so I
could filter out COM files.
You'll need to remember that HTML often includes things like "na me=" followed shortly by "www.example.co m" (spaces added to bypass filtering).
It looks quite valuable, but there are two bizarre side effects: I'm receiving more spam than before, and I'm also receiving personal email.
Huh?
As for the spam issue, I can create a rule to dump those messages into a separate folder, and delete them at the same time.
How can you possibly be getting *more* spam after applying this rule? That just doesn't make sense.
But the personal email thing is weird; four of those messages were "bidconfirmations" and
"endofauction" statements from ebay, and another was an .eml forward
from someone's home address to work.
Ah, you mean that the filter is generating false positives. That's due to the information above. Unfortunately, filters don't do a very good job with blocking attachments (blocking legitimate E-mails, or not catching attachments that it should), especially with .com files. You need an AV program to accurately block file extensions. With research of the archives, you can do a pretty decent job, though.
-Scott
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