Essentials

The Essentials tab located at Utilities > Automated Messages > Match Phrases > New Match Phrase page is used to create the basic settings needed for the Match Phrase

The table below explains the fields available on the Essentials tab:

Field Name Description

Search Phrases

This determines the word or phrase that is going to trigger the action set below. For example, if the phrase were make money fast, a message which used this phrase triggers this action. Instead of their message going to the mailing list, the sender is going to receive a document via email. This is an effective way to block unwanted topics on your mailing list

You can have several phrases, any of which can cause this action, by entering several phrases in the field. The phrases must be entered one on each line, for example:

viagra
make money fast

For power users, match phrases support regular expression for matching text. To specify that a given match phrase text is a regular expression you surround the text with / characters, as in: /regexp/

Note

Regular expressions are a sophisticated mathematical description for text matching patterns

Reject this Message

This is used to set whether or not the message is going to be rejected based on the inclusion of a match phrase entered above. If set to Yes, the message is rejected, and can be done with or without a response document; if set to No, the message is accepted, with or without a response document. The default is set to Yes

Response Documents

This determines what response, if any, when this match phrase is triggered. The default is set to none

If you select a document from the drop-down menu, this document is sent to the person who sent the message.

Note

For documents to appear in this drop-down menu, they must first be created in Utilities > Automated Messages > Document Content

If you choose none then no document is mailed back and the email message that caused the match phrase hit is accepted or rejected based on the above setting (without sending a document back to the sender). You can use this none match phrase response to stop mail loops or to blacklist people that you don't want accessing your server.

To summarize, when a match phrase is found, there are four options, based on the above settings:

  • Reject the message with no response document (reject= yes, response document= none )
  • Reject the message with a response document (reject= yes, response document= any from the list)
  • Accept the message with no response document (reject= no, response document= none)
  • Accept the message with a response document (reject= no, response document = any from the list)