Adding a Processing Rule

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You can use Delivery Rules to direct incoming mail to particular mailboxes based on the contents of To, From, Sender, Subject, the entire message Header (everything but the body of the message), or the Body of the message.

  1. Select the field you want to search.

  2. Select "contains" to have the delivery rule look for messages that contain the search string; select "doesn't contain" to look for messages that do not contain the string.

  3. Enter a search string as described below.

  4. In "Move To" select or enter the name of the mailbox to which messages meeting the rule criteria will be sent. If you enter a mailbox that does not exist, one will be created for this user on the IMail Server system. A POP3 user will see this mailbox only if he logs on to this mailbox using the format User ID-newbox. Enter NUL to discard the message.

  5. Turn on Case Sensitive Match to search for text that matches the case of the search string; to ignore case, turn off Case Sensitive Match.

Entering a Search String

Enter a search string by doing one or more of the following:

  • Enter the literal text (up to 255 characters) that you want to search for. For example, if you want to find the word jazz, type: jazz.

  • Type search expressions and quantifiers (up to 255 characters) as shown in the Text Patterns tables below.

  • Paste a portion of a mail message that meets your intended search criteria. For instance, you could copy and paste text such as XMSMailPriority(High) from the header of a message; this would search for High priority messages.

  • Check Search string from file if you have placed the search text in a text file. The listbox shows a list of the existing rule files.

Adding a Processing Rule

You can use Delivery Rules to direct incoming mail to particular mailboxes based on the contents of To, From, Sender, Subject, the entire message Header (everything but the body of the message), or the Body of the message.

  1. Select the field you want to search.

  2. Select "contains" to have the delivery rule look for messages that contain the search string; select "doesn't contain" to look for messages that do not contain the string.

  3. Enter a search string as described below.

  4. In "Move To" select or enter the name of the mailbox to which messages meeting the rule criteria will be sent. If you enter a mailbox that does not exist, one will be created for this user on the IMail Server system. A POP3 user will see this mailbox only if he logs on to this mailbox using the format User ID-newbox. Enter NUL to discard the message.

  5. Turn on Case Sensitive Match to search for text that matches the case of the search string; to ignore case, turn off Case Sensitive Match.

Entering a Search String

Enter a search string by doing one or more of the following:

  • Enter the literal text (up to 255 characters) that you want to search for. For example, if you want to find the word jazz, type: jazz.

  • Type search expressions and quantifiers (up to 255 characters) as shown in the Text Patterns tables below.

  • Paste a portion of a mail message that meets your intended search criteria. For instance, you could copy and paste text such as XMSMailPriority(High) from the header of a message; this would search for High priority messages.

  • Check Search string from file if you have placed the search text in a text file. The listbox shows a list of the existing rule files.

 

Note: As shown above, the following characters have special meaning in a rule:

            {}()|*+,.:

If you want to use one of these characters in a search string, precede it with a backslash. For example, to search for a plus sign, enter \+ in the search string.