E-Mail Filtering


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You can filter incoming mail to other folders using Filters.

How to Get There

  1. Log into your webmail account at https://webmail.bravehost.com. This can also be accessed through the email tab on bravenet.com
  2. Click on the Settings button
  3. Click on Filters

Filter Sets

A Filter Set is a set of filters. You can use one filter set at a time, where the active filter script is not grey'd out. To activate a filter script click on the filter script, click on the gear below, and select Enable/Disable.


Filters

Filters are added to filter sets. Incoming mail is processed in order of the filters, from top to bottom. There are 2 parts to each filter, Matching, and Actions taken if the incoming email matches.

Matching

Subject: Subject of the email From: Who this was sent from To: Address this was sent to. Some mailing lists would have this as the name of the mailing list. Body: This is the content (or body) of the email Size: Size of the email ...: For Advanced use. Can be used to match any other field that is not listed above (such as Reply-To)

Expressions: Allows you to use wildcards when searching. * matches zero or more characters, and ? matches a single character.

Actions

Move Message To: Move the email to this folder. Copy Message To: Copy a message to this folder. Redirect Message To: Redirects this message to this email address. The email will not be saved to the inbox. Send Message Copy To: Sends a copy of the email to this mail address. Delete Message: Deletes the message Set/Add/Remove Flags to the message: Modifies the message flags (such as email read). If also moving the mesage, this needs to be done before moving the message. Stop Evaluationg Rules: Will not process any additional rules for this email.