Hi,
For what reasons would MW7Pro not offer the option of blacklisting a domain?
On these two rubbish emails, I can only block the sender?, not the domain?
TIA
Unable to blacklist domain
- gasman
- Active Albatross
- gingbat
- Least Evil Firetrust Employee
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Re: Unable to blacklist domain
Possibly the domain is either malformed, or the email has a double from address which can confuse MW (known issue, on the todo list).
Options are to either just add sender to domain, or create a wildcard manually as per below example.....
To create a wildcard in your blacklist, click Settings>>Spam Tools>>Blacklist, select, "Wildcard Expression" and type in part of the address that is common to all these emails, for example if the address was:
[email protected]
You could add any one of these:
*fedex.com
(catches any email with fedex.com at the end of the email address)
*nds.fedex.com
(catches any email with nds.fedex.com at the end of the email address)
*nds.fedex*
(catches any email with nds.fedex anywhere in the email address)
*@nds*
(catches any email with @nds anywhere in the email address)
And click Add.
Then once you find it is working correctly, if you wish, you could set your blacklist to auto delete.
Settings>>Spam Tools>>Blacklist>>Options, tick, "Auto delete blacklisted emails" and click Save.
Note that the text in the blacklist needs to match what the text is in the senders email exactly, so your “ace hardware” one wont work, as there cannot be any spaces in a email address, there must be either no space there, or a - or a _ between words, it should show in the email itself however.
Another note, you cannot blacklist the senders name, only their actual email address, so if the senders info looks like this for example:
ace hardware ([email protected])
You'd need to blacklist the part within the brackets or part of that only.
Options are to either just add sender to domain, or create a wildcard manually as per below example.....
To create a wildcard in your blacklist, click Settings>>Spam Tools>>Blacklist, select, "Wildcard Expression" and type in part of the address that is common to all these emails, for example if the address was:
[email protected]
You could add any one of these:
*fedex.com
(catches any email with fedex.com at the end of the email address)
*nds.fedex.com
(catches any email with nds.fedex.com at the end of the email address)
*nds.fedex*
(catches any email with nds.fedex anywhere in the email address)
*@nds*
(catches any email with @nds anywhere in the email address)
And click Add.
Then once you find it is working correctly, if you wish, you could set your blacklist to auto delete.
Settings>>Spam Tools>>Blacklist>>Options, tick, "Auto delete blacklisted emails" and click Save.
Note that the text in the blacklist needs to match what the text is in the senders email exactly, so your “ace hardware” one wont work, as there cannot be any spaces in a email address, there must be either no space there, or a - or a _ between words, it should show in the email itself however.
Another note, you cannot blacklist the senders name, only their actual email address, so if the senders info looks like this for example:
ace hardware ([email protected])
You'd need to blacklist the part within the brackets or part of that only.