Differences

This shows you the differences between two versions of the page.

--- faq:email:global_mail_rules_configuration [2015/07/30 13:49]
vikki
+++ faq:email:global_mail_rules_configuration [2020/08/25 16:31] (current)
vikki
@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
-====== Global Mail Rules ======
+====== Global Email Rules ======
 \\
-The **Global Mail Rules** is for the administrator to further refine their email traffic. It is applicable on the incoming email sender's email address.\\
+The **Global Email Rules** is for the administrator to further refine their email traffic. It is applicable on the incoming email sender's email address.\\
-You have to login as Avomaster/voadmin in order manage these mail rules.\\
-Go to **Profile -> Admin Task -> Global Email Rules** to access the configuration.
+. You have to login as an Avomaster/VOadmin in order manage these mail rules.\\
+. 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**.
+{{faq:general:jmail1.png|}}\\
+{{faq:email:globmail.png|}}\\
 ==== Rules syntax ====
   * Each line is a rule. A rule may contains wild card like those used by the Bourne shell.\\
@@ Line 17: / Line 19: @@
 The following will mark all emails from somedomain.com as Junk:
    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.
-   reject *@hotmail.*
+   block *@hotmail.*
 Note that the * at the end will basically block all hotmail domain including:\\
 hotmail.com, hotmail.net or hotmail.cc\\
+The following will reject (stop delivery) incoming mails from the domain xyz.com, including its subdomain (like shop.xyz.com, alert.xyz.com):
+   block *.xyz.com
 The following will allow one person vip@domain.com to pass the rule:
@@ Line 33: / Line 41: @@
 **reject** (or block) Reject the email, not going into the delivery system.\\
 **junk** Deliver the email, with Junk rank set as 5 at least.
+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.\\

Afteroffice

User Tools

Site Tools

Differences

Page Tools