Field |
Explanation |
Filter Description |
Within this text box a name or a description is given to the filter being created. E.g.: “Spamming Filter”. |
Message From |
A filtering criteria preventing delivery from specific email addresses or creating ways to handle a specific email from a Sender. |
Message To |
Similar to From:, the To: address field allows the creation of criteria, based on the delivery to an email address or a group of receiving email addresses. |
Message Cc |
The Cc: criteria line is the same as the To: criteria line in that any email address entered here the filter will identify. Cc: is an abbreviation of Carbon Copy and in business terms is usually equated to “For Your Inclusion” or “For Your Perusal”. |
Message To or Cc |
Message To or Cc: This filtering criteria is a combination of “To:” and “Cc:”. This is useful when messages contain a specific email address, that could be in the “To” and in the “CC” fields of the message. |
Attachments |
This filtering criteria is used to filter out specific attachments inputted into the text box. The correct syntax for specifying a file format is *.(file format). This useful for detecting viruses. The filter pickups the file extension. If an antivirus utility is installed it will clean the infected file. |
Message Subject Contains |
This filtering criteria is used to block emails that contain specific subject contents. |
Message Contains |
This filtering criteria is used to block emails that contain any type of text entered into the text box. Most spam these days is blocked by filtering what the email contains. e.g.: An email contains sexual content, then in the filtering criteria “Message Contains:” we can input the offensive word and all emails with will be filtered. |
Action |
The action conditions in the dropdown menu are the actions the filter takes when the filtering criteria is met. |
Field |
Explanation |
Delete the message |
The message will be deleted and sent to the Deleted Items folder. |
Move message to Quarantine folder |
Moves the filtered message to a created folder called “Quarantine” in the folders tree. |
Move message to folder... |
The message is moved to a folder that is created to a specified folder |
Copy message to folder... |
Makes a copy of the filtered message and puts a copy in the specified folder. |
Move message to Junk E-mail folder |
Moves the filtered message to a created folder called “Junk” in the folders tree. |
Forward To Address | Forwards a copy of the email to an email address. |
Add Message Header | Adds an item to the message header. |
Add Prefix to Subject | Adds text to the beginning of the message subject. |