Examples of Delivery Rules

Inbound delivery rule for a host. A school administrator can set up an inbound delivery rule that scans for offensive language in mail messages and deliver such messages to a special user account that can be reviewed by a faculty member. Example

Outbound delivery rule for a host. A school administrator can set up an outbound delivery rule that will scan for offensive language or content in mail messages that are being sent out through IMail Server by a local user. Example

Inbound delivery rule for a list-server mailing list. A system administrator can set up an inbound delivery rule for a list-server mailing list to scan the body of all messages addressed to the list and scan for language that indicates that the e-mail came from a spammer or bulk mailer. If such messages are found, they can be deleted. For example, the rule can search for one of the following text strings:

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An Inbound delivery rule for an individual user. You could set up an inbound delivery rule for a sporting goods salesman to have all messages with baseball, softball, bat, base, homerun, or cap in the Subject line be automatically placed in his mailbox named Baseball. Example

An Inbound delivery rule combined with the Info Manager. You could set up an inbound delivery rule to forward all mail containing the phrase "send info" to a particular mailbox named Requests in a user account named Sales. Then, you could set up the Info Manager to send out a generic response and also forward the mail to your company's Sales Manager. Example

Related Topics

Rule Syntax