Mail filters (cPanel)

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Mail filters allow you to automatically perform different actions on emails received, based on who sent them, where they were sent to, and what they contain. Some of the possible actions are: discard, redirect, move to a folder or pipe to a program. For example, you could create a filter that automatically discards any email received from myoldgirlfriend@blackstump.com

Contents 1 User level filtering 2 Account level filtering 3 Creating filters 4 See also

User level filtering

The user level filtering option in cPanel lets you create different filters for each email account.

Account level filtering

The account level filtering option in cPanel lets you create filters that will affect all email accounts.

Creating filters

To create a new filter, first is to decide whether it should be user or account level. If you choose user-level, choose the user to apply the filter to and click 'Manage Filters'. After this, both levels can either edit an existing filter or add a new one. When creating a new filter, you will then see an image similar to the following.

There are a variety of rules available to select which emails the rule should apply to including To, From, Subject, message body, sending errors, or spam status. Multiple rules can also be combined with AND's or OR's. Actions which should then be carried out include redirection to another email address, discarding the email completely, fail with an error message, place in a particular folder, stop processing further email rules or pipe to a particular program.

Clicking 'Activate' will then start applying the filter.

See also

• SpamAssassin (cPanel)
• cPanel
• Email

Mail (cPanel options)
Email Accounts	Webmail	SpamAssassin	Forwarders	Auto Responders	Default Address	Mailing Lists
User Level Filtering	Account Level Filtering	Email Delivery Route	MX Entry