efficient / effective use of Email Filtering ??

expatCanuck

• December 08, 2013 10:12

Hi folks - I just discovered email filtering, and am having a fun time directing spam to my junk folder. On the User Level Filtering page ([url=http://docs.cpanel.net/twiki/bin/view/AllDocumentation/CpanelDocs/UserFiltering]User Level Filtering), the Best Practices section recommends:.. using multiple, simple filters instead of a single, monolithic filter. Exim, your server's mail transfer agent, handles many small rules much more efficiently ... What's a reasonable number of conditions? For example, there are a whole slew of obvious marketing terms that, if contained in the Sender field, almost certainly signify a junk message. Are 5 conditions in a single rule reasonable? (e.g. Sender contains or ... or ) 10? 20? Alternately, how many is too many? Also, presumably when I create a filter, there's a config file that's created somewhere. Can that be edited directly? Might that be more efficient than using the UI? Any & all insight welcome. Thanks kindly, - [COLOR="#000080">Richard

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  cPanelMichael

  • December 09, 2013 15:31

  Hello :) Using five conditions in a single rule should be fine. However, it's better to setup a filter, and then test it to see the results. Here is a post on where the user level filters are stored if you want to edit them manually: cPanel - User Level Filters Thank you.

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