|
How Incoming Messages Are Processed
|
Previous Top Next |
| How Incoming Messages Are Processed
|
|
|
| When ChoiceMail receives an email, it goes through a process to determine whether the email should be passed through to your email application.
|
|
|
| 1. | Is this sender on our Accept list?
|
| If so, pass the message through to the user's email application.
|
| 2. | Is this sender on the Reject list?
|
| If so, silently delete the message.
|
| 3. | Check the contents (sender's email address, subject, body of message, IP address, etc.) against the permission rules
|
| If there's a match with one of the rules, then apply the associated action (accept it, reject it, etc.). Note that you can change the order of rules to prioritize one over another.
|
| 4. | Is this sender on the Unknown Senders list?
|
| If so, is the message a registration? If it is, display a message stating that a sender has just registered. The user then decide whether to accept messages from this person. If it's not a registration, then just hold it until the sender does register.
|
| 5. | Is the domain of the sender in the Rejected Domains list?
|
| If it is, just delete the message.
|
| 6. | Is the domain of the sender in the Accepted Domains List?
|
| If it is, pass the message through to the user's email application.
|
| 7. | This sender is new!
|
| If a sender doesn't fall into any of the categories, then the sender is new. Send an email back to the sender asking him/her to register, add the sender to the Unknown Senders list, and hold the email pending registration.
|
|
|
| ChoiceMail performs some other tests as well, to ensure that you don't receive bogus messages, such as a bounced-back registration request or a spoofed message pretending to come from your own email address.
|