Bypassing Rules/Filters

To enhance capabilities of IceWarp Server, increase its performance and ease administration, it offers possibility to use bypassing. You can find it on many places – e.g. within Anti-Spam Server, Anti-Virus Server, Content Filters, etc. It allows you to bypass rules/filters processing for certain senders, recipients, domains, email addresses, etc.

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Click the "B" button to specify a bypass list. In the Bypass dialog, you can specify the bypass items.

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Use the Add and Edit buttons to create/edit a record. The Bypass Item dialog opens:

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Field

Description

Type

Select the bypass item type. For the list, see the Value feature description.

Value

Fill in or select the appropriate value for bypass item types:

Type	Value (Explanation)
All (= Sender, Recipient, IP Address)	email address, domain, IP address
Sender	email address or domain
Recipient	email address or domain
Local Sender	leave the Value field blank (emails of all local senders will bypass rules/filters processing)
Trusted Session	leave the Value field blank (emails of all authenticated users or users connected from trusted IP will bypass rules/filters processing)
DNS A	sever hostname
IP/Pattern	IP address that you can find in the SMTP log of the senders connection. You can use wild cards and bitmasks. E.g. 192.168.. or 172.16.10.0/24
DNSWL	a name of the DNSWL server that you trust/use, for more DNSWL servers create more bypass records
File	path to the bypass file with defined bypass items; e.g. c:\data\bypass\allbypass.dat

Comment

Enter bypass description.

Use the Delete button to remove the selected record. Click the Text File button to reveal the editable text file with current records. To reveal syntax rules, click the Comment button here.