Dumb OutEx Question on Rules

[cwg01]

If you use rules to manage the inbound mail, how the does the program use the 'containing words'. If I put a word in the box, it shouldn't care WHERE the word occurs in the message, right?
(You'll have to excuse me, I'm a little about the program's behavior. )

[putasolutions]

Lol, very restrained!!

A question for you

Did you set up the rule for just the message body and not the subject line?

The two are separate and distinct, so you will have to add to the rule

[cwg01]

Yes, for the message body, ought to explain the why this is important:
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If you recognize this, then you know what a mime-exploit worm email does, and if I can catch this word, then I can protect those people on my intranetwork from opening an infected email by causing it to 'vanish' before they see it.

[putasolutions]

I see what you are trying to do, but I am not sure that rules actually goes through code.

[sourdaisy]

I think that what you're trying to do would only work if you chose to configure OE to not use HTML-encoded messages at all. If everything is straight text, it should catch your "keyword". However, getting OE to behave like that may be incredibly difficult though.

[cwg01]

Originally posted by sourdaisy
... However, getting OE to behave like that may be incredibly difficult though.

Believe you there, probably end up like a friend of mine who sends me stuff from an AOL account, everything he sends gets the &quot; expanded to &amp;amp;quot; and I see, literally, '&amp;quot;'!
Oh well, bummer.