Phrase Filtering

Phrase filtering searches for specific spam phrases within the body of an e-mail and takes the action that you specify. This page allows you to enable/disable phrase filtering for the current host, create and maintain the host specific phrase list, and specify an action to take when an e-mail message contains one of the phrases. Phrases are stored in the phrase-list.txt file which is located in the host's directory. The Phrase list box displays the contents of the current phrase list.

Enabling Phrase Filtering

  1. Select which host's phrase filtering settings will be used for the current host. Select from:

  2. Select the task you want to accomplish:

  3. Adding Phrases to the Phrase List

    Editing the Phrase List

    Removing Phrases from the Phrase List

  4. Select Normalize Words if you want IMail to strip out all non-alphabetic charaters from words before comparing them to the phrase list.

  5. From the Scan listbox, select which area(s) of the message you want to scan for phrase matches. Select from: Subject, Body, or Subject and Body.

  6. Specify what action to take if a message contains one of the phrases from the phrase list.

  7. If you want to modify the subject of spam messages, select Prefix Subject With and enter the text into the text box.
  8. Click Save.

Note: You can obtain an example phrase.txt file from the Ipswitch website at www.ipswitch.com.


Related Topics:

What should be in the Phrase List?

Statistical Filtering