Email rules, clarifications needed
I know we're going to Yahoo soon enough, but the spam filtering is so awful is (filtering non-spam and not detecting obvious spam) so I'm having to setup rules for the short term. Not the worst, but the poor help files are vague and rules don't seem to be consistently processed. Some Qs that'll help me out....
What does 'Reject with reason" do.... move the email to trash and/or send a reply with the reason in the header to the reply address?
Does Blacklist mean the Blocked Senders list?
What does the rule Discard mean? Is it permanently delete, move to Trash, or something else?
Is this correct... the processing sequence appears to be: Rules, Blocked Senders, auto spam filtering.
TIA!
For an explanation of Filter Rules, see: How to: Prevent Webmail Spam | Cox Community
That post was created for the previous version of Webmail. All information about Filter Rules still applies but ignore references to spam filtering. Current Webmail does not include spam filtering.
In theory, "reject with reason" refuses to accept email during the SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) transaction. It would occur during the initial connection between the sender's and recipient's servers, before any email content is transmitted. However, I recall reading a post about "reject with reason" that indicated it didn't work. That may have been with the previous version of Webmail. If you give it a try, let us know how it works.
The only spam filtering is the email flagged as spam by email security companies. That email will go directly to the Spam folder. Filter Rules don't apply to email going to Spam. In order of execution, email flagged as spam is processed first. Avoid using "Blocked Senders". It's better accomplished using Filter Rules as described in the post at the above link.
The difference between "Discard" and "File into Trash" is described in the post at that above link.
Edit: Tested Filter Rule with Action: "Reject with reason". It didn't reject the email.
