Thanks.

<p>Hello,</p><p> </p><p>I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong... I tested this in Pegasus Mail and it does work, so not sure what's happening.</p><p>I have created the following rule set (following is rules.mer):</p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Mercury Global Rules</span></p><p>Always AddHeader "X-Always Rule Triggered"</p><p>If attachment ExtnPart contains "xml" AddHeader "X-Attachment Rule Triggered"</p><div> </div><div>(The actions are temporary because I need to see if the rule works. What I really want is to extract attachments, but since that wasn't working, I tried this approach to see if it was a folder issue or the rule not really triggering...).</div><div> </div><div>When I check the headers of the email, I see no new header added (it's as if the rule is not triggered). Same rule (with the actual attachment extraction) does work in Pegasus Mail, as noted above.</div><div> </div><div>This is a specific need we have at work, just to extract this type of attachments, and though I have managed to make it work with Pegasus Mail, I'd rather use Mercury and purchase a licence (my history with Pegasus Mail and Mercury dates back to 2000!).</div><div> </div><div>Any advise would be appreciated. </div>

<p>Are you shure, that such a header with blanks in headername is allowed? Checked several mails in my mailbox and none has any headername with blanks.</p><p>bye   Olaf</p><p> </p>

<p>Thanks for your reply.</p><p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Not sure what you mean exactly, but this is an attachment-based rule, so headers should be irrelevant.</span></p><p>  <span style="font-size: 10pt;">Again, thanks.</span></p>

<p>Instructions for Add header to message are: "You must enter the header exactly as it is to appear in the message, including the keyword and ':' character."</p><p>I tested this with "<span style="font-size: 10pt;">X-TEST: xml found" and it works as expected.</span></p><p> </p><p> </p>

<p>Have a look at posting by Rolf. Headers have this syntax: </p><blockquote><p><headername>: <headervalue> </p></blockquote><p>There must not be blanks in headername - you have due to missing colon. So your header should probably be:</p><blockquote><p>X-Always: Rule Triggered </p><p>X-Attachment: Rule Triggered </p></blockquote><p>Bye     Olaf</p><p> </p>

<p>Thanks. Not sure how I missed that ":".</p><p>But that doesn't explain why the attachment is not extracted. I mean, I started to to play with the Custom Headers to see if the rule was triggered.</p><p>In any case, I made it work with a General Rule set, via an alias, but I would have preferred if it worked just by defining a global rule.</p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Thanks, everyone. I guess we can close this thread. </span></p>