CREATING FILTER RULES
The Internet Exchange Mailsort filtering utility allows you to define the behavior of the LMDA towards your incoming messages by allowing you to create filter rules that would direct the LMDA on how to sort your incoming messages. To create filter rules, simply follow the procedure below.

  1. Select the header field ( From:, To:, Cc:, Bcc:, Subject: ) from the header drop down menu. The header field selected will be the basis for filtering the messages. The Mailsort utility will scan this field for the pattern specified by the user which may be a word, phrase or email address.
  2. In the contains field, type the pattern that the Mailsort engine will search for in the header previously selected.
  3. Mark the radio button of the action ( move to, copy to, forward, send vacation reject ) that Mailsort will apply to messages that meet the defined pattern or criteria.
  4. Configure the filtering action. Select either Yes or No.Selecting Yes instructs Mailsort to filter messages from the first rule up to the last filter rule. Selecting No disables certain filters and tells Mailsort to stop the filtering process once a filter is matched. Click the Ok button for the filter rule to take effect. NOTE: Once the initial filter is created, the "Mailsort Filter Information" screen appears instead of the "Mailsort Start" screen. This screen displays the initial filter rule together with its Add, Exit, Vacation Message, Edit, Delete and Help buttons.

  5. Choose your preferred mailbox (e.g engr@ima.com) from the mailbox list provided.
  6. The Move Up and Move Down buttons appear only if there is a minimum of three filtering rules in the filter file.

    NOTE: You must have an existing shared mailbox account to be able to move your mail to other mailboxes. The example, engr@ima.com mailbox, was created in the Shared Mailbox Account of the Message Store. If you do not have an existing shared mailbox account in the Message Store, the pull-down menu for the actions Move to and Copy to will only contain the INBOX and OUTBOX mailboxes.

  7. Select either Yes or No to configure the filtering action.
  8. Selecting Yes will turn on the Filter Continuously option. This will instruct Mailsort to filter messages starting from the first filter statement up to the last filter statement. It means that Mailsort will filter messages sequentially from the first filter rule up to the last filter rule when multiple filtering rules are defined. A possible example would be for a single message to match multiple rules. This option is set to handle this case.

    Selecting No will turn off the Filter Continuously option. This will disable certain filters and will not continue filtering the succeeding messages. This will tell Mailsort to stop the filtering process when a filter is matched. Otherwise, the process will continue sorting mail using the other filter statements.

  9. Click the OK button to save the new filter information for that particular filter block.