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Viewing mail rules and the evaluation sequence, Move Up, Move Down
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sources. With these ideas in mind, try to build your initial rules such that the accepted e-mail addresses and domains indicate genuine e-mail from known sources. 5.2.3 Viewing mail rules and the evaluation sequence Once you have created the rules for your mail file, you need to look at the whole set and place them in the right sequence. Figure 5-9 shows our sample rules and their sequence in the mail file rules view. Move Up and Move Down action buttons at the top of the rules view can be used to change the sequence. Figure 5-9 Rules view showing rules in the evaluation sequence Based on these rules, the mail that you know you want will end up in the folder My Customers. Mail that is definitely spam will be denied and mail that is likely to be spam will end up in the Suspicious folder. Typically, you will want any rules that file acceptable mail into folders to be first and rules that scan the body of messages to be last, since these take up the most processing time. Chapter 5. Using mail file rules to prevent spam 77
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