Mail filtering rules

[jnisbet]

When I choose to filter based on the From: field, it appears as if I am required to enter an exact match. Is it possible for me to (for example) filter all emails from russia ( *@*.ru ) into their own folder?

In addition, is it possible to negate the rules criteria that exist? Put another way, could I filter every email that is *not* from chimpanzee@my.zoo.com into a NoMonkeys folder?

[ScalixSupport]

In answer to your first question on embedded wildcards in a filter:
Currently this is not possible with the current interface for creating the rules. The Scalix server is able to do this, but would require some advanced knowledge (and a command line) to configure.

The filter created by the Server Rules Wizard interface includes an explicit wildcard at the beginning and end, but not embedded. If specificed then an embedded "*" is taken literally.

So, a filter of "@ru" would match both:

abc@ru.com
def@ru.org

but not (as you want):

xyz@something.ru

Unfortunately, the presence of the "@" is what triggers the filter to look for an internet address, so specifying a filter of ".ru" would not have the desired effect and even if it did it would be prone to a false positive as it would match:

Reindeer.Rudolph@xmas.com

On your second point, it is possible to negate the condition, when you set up the rule condition there is a pull down in which you select either "is" or "is not".

Hope that helps.
JG