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Recipient Replacement Tab

 

 

Purpose

Recipient replacement is a powerful tool to ease the transition from one domain to another or for wildcard name replacements and rules.

 

General Use

The criteria of an inbound message is specified using the wildcard character ‘*’. If the name of a recipient meets the criteria of a rule, it will be replaced by the replacement string specified.

The replacement string is specified by entering the desired result string entering %n in place of the corresponding asterisk character where n is the number of the asterisk in the criteria.

The rules are read from top down until either a rule changes the recipient or the end of the list is reached. If the end of the list is reached, the original address is used in processing the message. Use the 'Up' and 'Dn' buttons to re-order your rule list.

To test the functionality of a specific rule, highlight the rule in the list, enter the supposed incoming e-mail address in the test box and click ‘Test One’. The result box will either show the resulting e-mail address let you know why the rule failed for the specified address.

To test the implication of your rule set on an e-mail address based on all of your rules, enter the address in the test box and click 'Test All'. This will show you what the resulting address will be when the rule is run. If the address returned is the same as the original, the name did not meet any of the criteria.

Examples: (which may or may not be useful, but demonstrate how it works)

 

Criteria

Replacement

Sent Address

Result

*@isp.com

%1@company.com

John@isp.com

John@company.com

*@*.company.com

%1.%2@company.com

John@sales.company.com

John.sales@company.com

*_*@company.com

%2_%1@newcomp.com

John_Smith@company.com

Smith_John@newcomp.com

*@isp.com

%1@isp.com

John@company.com

(did not match rule)

John@isp.com

John@company.com

John@isp.com

John@company.com

 

Note: You would use option 5 over option 1 for downloading personal mail accounts to prevent duplication of messages from other recipients of ‘isp.com’.

Concepts

Use this feature to change the format of incoming mail. You may need to reformat mail recipient names due to a company name change or rename domains that you do not own such as personal accounts at an ISP.

 

 

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