Current Rules 

example.gif The Set Rule page shows the individual rules by which inbound and/or outbound messages are evaluated.

Messages found to match all the criteria specified in any one of the rules will trigger the action (Quarantine or Delete) specified within the rule, and a notification message is automatically sent to the administrator or other specified party.

The AND operator applies within any given rule; the OR operator applies between rules (or, in the content filter, between policies).

·      For the spam filter, only the header information of messages (e.g., routing domain , From:, To: and Subject: lines) is evaluated.

·      For the content filter, the contents of the message text are considered in addition to the header data. Binary attachments encoded using MIME, UUencode, or other encoding schemes are not evaluated. Simple ASCII attachments that are not encoded are included in the evaluation.

The evaluation of SMTP traffic against the rules starts from the first, or top rule, and proceeds down through to the end. As such, it is advisable to place rules with the broadest reach at the top of the list, and those that are more narrowly defined at the bottom.

There is no limit to the number of Current Rules.

See also:

Current Rules Strategy
Example