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SFA's Meridius Spam Quarantine Service Info
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SFA's Meridius Spam Quarantine Service Info
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The filter allows you to allow or block e-mail messages from specific addresses.
If you add an address to your allow list, messages from that address will never
being held as suspected spam. If you add an address to your block list, messages
from that address will always be considered spam. As was discussed in the section for
managing your quarantined e-mail
, you can release a message and add the address of the sender to your
allow list. You can also delete a message and at the same time add it
to your block list. You can also manually add e-mail addresses
of people you know to your allow list before they ever have a chance to be
held as suspected spam. It is important to note that the maximum number of
addresses you can have in your allow list is 300 and the maximum number of
addresses you can have in your block list is 300. You can see a view of the
filter page below. It displays the current number of addresses in your allow and
block lists.
To manually add addresses to your allow or block lists, make sure that you click the "Filter" tab once you are logged in to your Meridius account. Enter your address in the text field. Click the "Allow" button if you always want e-mail from that address to bypass spam checking. Click the "Block" button if you never want e-mail from that address to make it to your e-mail account. To delete an address from your allow or block lists, put a check mark by the address you want to delete and click on "Delete" located above and below your list of addresses. Notice that you can empty all addresses from either your allow or block list by clicking "Empty Allow List" or "Empty Block List". Be cautious using the empty function since once you perform this action, you will not be able to get those lists back. You now have the option of not having any messages held as suspected spam. Simply put an asterisk (*) in the text field then click "Allow". This means that all mail addressed to you will not be checked for spam. It will still be checked for viruses. There are three symbols for the type of addresses used in your allow or block lists.
There are two symbols that denote whether the address is in your allow list or block list. The symbol  means that the address is in your allow list. The
symbol  menas that the address is in your block list.
There are several ways that you can sort your allow/block lists. Note that you cannot see just your allow list or just your block list. All addresses are mixed together. You can sort by "Action" to group all your allowed addresses and all your blocked addresses. You can also sort by type of address, date you entered the address into your allow or block list, or sort the addresses alphabetically. |
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means the address is a domain address.
This type of address allows you to allow or block messages based on the value following the
"@" symbol of an address. For example, if you have @myfriends.com in your allow list, any
address that ends in @myfriends.com will be accepted and not checked for spam. You can also
allow addresses from any number of subdomains. For example, myfriends.com may also have addresses
that end with @sports.myfriends.com or @cooking.myfriends.com. "Sports" and "cooking" are subdomains
of myfriends.com. To allow all messages from the myfriends.com domain, enter an allow list entry
like this: @.myfriends.com
means the address is an e-mail address and that
any message from that exact address will be either allowed or blocked based on which list you
have entered it into.
means the address
is based on the portion of the e-mail address before the "@" symbol. For example, if the address
you want to allow is billybob@myfriends.com, you can enter billybob into your allow list. If
sometime in the future Billy has a change of e-mail address but the part before the "@" symbol
remains billybob, you will not have to make any change to your allow list. Of course, this will
allow all messages from any address that starts with billybob, even if it is not from your friend.