FILTERING

• How can I use the custom filters effectively?

  If you set a custom filter to use regular expressions, then you can easily create OR or AND expressions.  OR: Separate each word by a pipe | eg: word1|word2|word3|word4 AND: Separate each word by a ca...

• Can you provide a summary of each filtering mechanism?

  The following provides a summary of MWES's filtering features. Whitelist The whitelist includes email addresses from which all emails are accepted, regardless of their content.None of MWES's junk mail...

• In what order are messages filtered?

  Email is filtered in the following order.        White filters section        ---------------------        Trusted IP        Authenticated        Rout-able        White Listed (email address)        W...

• How can we filter incoming and outgoing mail?

  You'll need to add the configuration entry use_is_routable=0 Windows Go to the Windows Registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Firetrust Limited\mwes After you have added use_is_routable=0, restart the ...

• IP Blacklist range

  For the IP Blacklist, can you enter IP Ranges or must you enter individual IP addresses? Yes, eg 94.168.102.63/16...

• Why can't I add my own email address to the whitelist?

  In the beginning we had a lot of people add their own email address to the whitelist, but this had the unintended result of letting a lot of spam through which was faked to use the recipients own emai...

• What filtering mechanisms does MailWasher Server use?

  Message Signatures: FirstAlert! Global Spam Database. Adding to MWES’s comprehensive, multi-layered approach, MWES uses the FirstAlert! global spam database –a 24/7 operation which makes use of a glob...