Outbound Delivery Rules for Domains

Use Outbound delivery rules to filter messages that are being sent through IMail Server to a non-local address. Outbound delivery rules can only be created for IP domains.

Note: Outbound rules can not be created for virtual domains. Virtual domains will follow the outbound rules of the IP address that it is bound to.

Use the Outbound Rules page to add new outbound rules, edit outbound rules, delete outbound rules, move outbound rule evaluation priority up or down, and add and set actions to take on a message that matches the rule criteria.

The Outbound Rules list displays information about each of the active Outbound rules for the selected mail domain. The outbound delivery rules for a mail domain are stored in the orules.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.

Outbound Rules

Domain: Shows the current selected domain. From the drop down you can pick any of the domains available to this administrative user account.

Rules List

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.
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.

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.

Delivery Rule Syntax

Rules Dialog

Adding Multiple Conditions to Rules