I tried to filter out the com attachments and noticed the same thing but I am on 8.05HF2. I decided it looked like if the email was html, it was catching ".com" when a url was in the email. I ended up removing the rule :(
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Eric Geater 5/3/04 Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 11:19 AM To: Imail Forum Subject: [IMail Forum] New rule syntax catches more than attachments Hello! I applied the "name=.{1,64}\.ext" rule to my Imail 8.01 yesterday, so I could filter out COM files. So far, it caught twelve viruses (the rule forwards these messages to me). 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. 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. 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. I told that person about the testing we're doing, and they granted me permission to read the message, so I could decipher why it's getting forwarded. So I need to know these two things: How can that rule be tweaked to be less inclusive? Is there something in all these messages I'm receiving that would help me decipher why they're getting caught? I hate to open spam, if it can be avoided. Thanks! Eric Geater egeater at mscoinc dot com To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
