Filtering: Best Technique

[Don]

Let's say there's a few legit users out there who email from NOTMAIL.COM and mail from THEM I'd like to allow to go on to their normal destination (one of my assigned email accts). All other mail from NOTMAIL.COM I'd like to trap for review in a folder in my central account.

What's the most practical way to go about this little trick?

[TCH-Don]

Hi Don

 

What I do in outlook express

is to setup two rules:

1 check for from @NOTMAIL.COM and move to a folder called REVIEW

2 check for friends@NOTMAIL.COM and move to friends folder

 

All @NOTMAIL.COM will end up in the review folder, but friends will be moved in the folder for friends.

 

All of my email is moved to a trash folder

and then more filters move the ones I want to an appropriate folder.

it took a while, adding filters as needed,

but it works for me now.

[Don]

That's good on the user level, but I want to do this at the mail management level, before it even gets to the user.

[TCH-Bruce]

I think if you used Spam Assassin and white listed the email addresses you wanted to allow and blacklist the *@NOTMAIL.COM you could accomplish what you want to do.

 

I haven't tested it but I think it should work.

[TCH-Bruce]

Moving thread for better organization.

[Don]

I'm giving that a whirl, Bruce. The only thing that worries me is that it looks like there's a limited number of blacklist and whitelist slots, or is that just an optical illusion?

[TCH-Bruce]

I can't remember if you exit and come back into the configuration if it gives you more boxes or not to enter the information.

 

But if that's the case you can whitelist/blacklist in the "user_prefs" file. You find that file using File Manager in cPanel in the ".spamassassin" folder.

 

Just add one of each in the configuration fisrt to see the syntax required.

[Don]

Ah! Thanks Bruce. Will try that.