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- | The **Global | + | The **Global |
- | You have to login as Avomaster/ | + | |
- | Go to **Profile -> Admin Task -> Global Email Rules** to access the configuration. | + | |
- | **Rules | + | 1. You have to login as an Avomaster/ |
- | . Each line is a rule. A rule may contains wild card like those used by the Bourne shell.\\ | + | 2. Referring to the image below, go to **(1)Profile (icon on the top section) -> (2)Admin (rightmost icon) -> (3)Global Email Rules (left side under Admin Task) -> (4)Make any important edits on this section -> (5)Update button to save the edits**. |
- | . Each rule is prefix with an action, like this: **[// | + | {{faq: |
+ | {{faq: | ||
+ | ==== Rules syntax ==== | ||
+ | * Each line is a rule. A rule may contains wild card like those used by the Bourne shell.\\ | ||
+ | | ||
- | **Examples:**\\ | + | ==== Examples |
The following will allow all email from yahoo.com to get pass: | The following will allow all email from yahoo.com to get pass: | ||
pass *@yahoo.com | pass *@yahoo.com | ||
- | Note that a " | + | Note that the " |
The following will mark all emails from somedomain.com as Junk: | The following will mark all emails from somedomain.com as Junk: | ||
junk *@somedomain.com | junk *@somedomain.com | ||
- | + | ||
+ | The following will reject (stop delivery) incoming mails from an email address. | ||
+ | block someone@somedomain.com | ||
The following will reject (stop delivery) of all email coming from hotmail domain. | The following will reject (stop delivery) of all email coming from hotmail domain. | ||
- | reject | + | block *@hotmail.* |
Note that the * at the end will basically block all hotmail domain including: | Note that the * at the end will basically block all hotmail domain including: | ||
hotmail.com, | hotmail.com, | ||
+ | |||
+ | The following will reject (stop delivery) incoming mails from the domain xyz.com, including its subdomain (like shop.xyz.com, | ||
+ | block *.xyz.com | ||
The following will allow one person vip@domain.com to pass the rule: | The following will allow one person vip@domain.com to pass the rule: | ||
- | | + | pass vip@domain.com |
- | | + | |
junk *@domain.com | junk *@domain.com | ||
This would basically block all other email from domain.com other than vip@domain.com.\\ | This would basically block all other email from domain.com other than vip@domain.com.\\ | ||
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**reject** (or block) Reject the email, not going into the delivery system.\\ | **reject** (or block) Reject the email, not going into the delivery system.\\ | ||
**junk** Deliver the email, with Junk rank set as 5 at least. | **junk** Deliver the email, with Junk rank set as 5 at least. | ||
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+ | Mail rules take priority over junk ranking and spam filtering system. So if an email passed the rules, it will not be scanned and tagged with junk ranking.\\ |