Creating a OSX Mail Rule

Hello. I have created a Rule for mail. I get quite a few spam emails with the "Mail Attachment" attached. Its not working:
Description: Mail Attachment
If ANY of the following conditions are met:
Any attachment name / contains / Mail attachment
Perfomr the following actions:
Move message / to mailbox / Trash these
What am I missing?
Thanks.
(v10.7.2)

create a new service for your sorry server.
Then under the content rule defined for http traffic, you add the following line:
primarySorryServer
Regarding the config you provided, what you show is a 'show service ' and we can clearly see that even if your 2 services have different name, they are identical.
I believe you would want to configure different keepalive.
ie: for HTTP
keepalive port 80
keepalive type http
keepalive uri "/"
for rtsp
keepalive port 554
keepaliave type tcp
Regards,
Gilles.

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