Inbound Delivery Rules for IMail Domains

Use the Inbound delivery rules page to sort incoming mail messages for the mail domain by adding new inbound rules, editing, deleting, moving inbound rule evaluation priority up or down, and setting actions to take on a message that matches the rule criteria.

The Inbound Rules list displays information about each of the active inbound rules for the selected mail domain. The inbound delivery rules for a mail domain are stored in the rules.ima file, located in ...\IMail domain top directory, for the primary domain, and under ...\IMail\DomainName for all non-primary domains.

Note: Rules are processed in the order in which they appear in the Rules list.

Inbound Rules

Domain: Shows the current selected domain. From the drop down you can pick any of the domains available to this administrative user account.
Name list. Click a rule name to select and update the conditions and settings.
Action. Displays the action to take on a message that matches the rule condition criteria.
Conditions. Displays the conditions selected for each rule.
External Filename. Displays the name of the external rule condition file if it is used. See Storing Search Text in an External Text File.
Destination. Displays the mailbox or e-mail address to forward messages to that match the rule condition criteria. A Destination is only available when Move to Mailbox or Forward are selected in the Action Type list.
File Name. Displays the file name of the external rule condition file if it is used. See Storing Search Text in an External Text File.
Add. Click Add to create a new mail domain rule. For more information, see Adding Inbound Delivery Rules for Domains.
Edit. Select a rule and click Edit, or double click a rule, to modify a rule.
Move Up. Select a rule and click Move Up to move the rule processing order to a higher priority for e-mail filtering. Rules are processed in the order in which they appear in the Rules list.
Move Down. Select a rule and click Move Down to move the rule processing order to a lower priority for e-mail filtering.
Delete. Select a rule that you want to delete from the Inbound Rules list, then click Delete to delete the rule.