E-Mail Filtering


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You can filter incoming mail to other folders, and do much more, 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 set is not grey'd out. To activate a Filter set click on the filter set, click on the gear below, and select Enable/Disable. You can only have one active Filter set enabled at once.

Exporting

To export your Filter Set, ensure the Filter Set you want to export is selected, then click the image of the gear below and select "Download" to download as a file

Importing

To import your Filter Set, click the Plus under Filter Sets at the bottom. Select "From File", and choose the file which contains a backup of your filters.

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 you are also Moving the Message to another folder, Flags need to be changed first.
  • Stop Evaluationg Rules: Will not process any additional rules for this email.