• Enter the user name of the member that you want to ban. The user name is everything to the left of the @ symbol in the email address.
• For instance, if the member to ban has an email address of Jane_Trouble@example.com, enter Jane_trouble in this field. You can enter names in any case, but they are saved in lower case.
• Only the user name portion of the email address (jane_trouble), should be entered, as members cannot be banned on their actual name, only the user name portion of their email address.
• The User Name field must be blank for Always Accept bans.

• Enter the domain of the member that you want to ban. This is everything to the right of the @ symbol in their email address.
• In the above example, you would enter example.com. The domain name can also be entered in any case but is saved in lower case.
• To ban a top-level domain, enter it without an initial dot (For example, net)

There are three types of bans:

• Always accept
• Conditionally accept
• Reject

If an address matches an Always accept ban rule, it is accepted with no further processing. Addresses that do not match any Always accept or Conditionally accept ban rule are rejected.

Records found in Conditionally accept are accepted if no explicit reject information is found. Records found in Reject are rejected automatically if matched. For more information, see Features of ban addresses

Set the list, site, or server, that member ban applies to. The options you see here depends on your privileges, whether you are a list, site, or server administrator.

For example, if you are a site administrator, you are able to create list or site bans, but not server bans. The Applies to field defaults to the current list.

For information on how to specify one server to handle all banned members, see Advanced: Global Ban Settings.