Problem with filename ruleset for "Remove These Headers"

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Dec 1 13:10:40 GMT 2004


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Mike wrote:

>>Try renaming RemoveTheseHeaders to RemoveTheseHeaders.rule
>>Then it should spot that you are putting in a ruleset filename. Without
>>that, there is no way to distinguish between the name of a header and
>>the name of a ruleset file.
>>
>>
>
>Strange but true. This indeed seems to work. Strange, because all other rules also do /not/ have a ".rules" appended to it and work perfectly! I will however append ".rules" to all other rulesets, to avoid problems in the futher.
>
>
If it can work out what you mean without any filename matching, it will
do so. But as the header names are just arbitrary pieces of text, there
is no way for it to know what you meant.

It's as intelligent as I could make it, but in this case there is no way
to tell.

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