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PageGate can filter incoming email messages to decide if messages should be forwarded to the recipient or not. Filtering is only done on the sender's email address. Here are the steps necessary to setup email filtering in PageGate.
1. Create a new folder under the PageGate database folder and name it 'Filters' (no quotes)
2. In this folder you can create a text file named 'Global.AllowOnly'. If this file exists, only mail from the domains and/or mailboxes included in this file will be sent your recipients. For example, if you had 'notepage.com' in the file (no quotes), then the only email that would be sent to the recipients get would be email from anyone at notepage.com. If you put 'chris@notepage.com' (no quotes) in the file, then only email from chris@notepage.com would be sent to your recipients. If you put ".com' in the file, then PageGate would only send messages out that were receive from from .com email addresses (not .net, .org, etc.).
2. in this folder you can create a text file named 'Global.DontAllow'. If this file exists, then mail from any entries in this file won't be allowed. Fore example if you add 'notepage.com', then no mail from anyone at notepage.com will be sent to the PageGate recipients. If you put 'chris@notepage.com' in the file, then you can receive email from everyone at notepage.com, except chris. If you add '.com' to the file, you won't be able to receive mail from anyone that has a .com address.
3. You can also create files named <recipient_name>.AllowOnly and <recipient_name>.DontAllow (<recipient_name> would be replaced with the actual recipient's name as it is setup in PageGate). They act the same as the global files, but are only for the individual recipients.
4. All the above files should only have a single entry on each line. Here is an example of a file for the recipient named 'page-chris' that won't get any email from yahoo.com, their mother-in-law, and anyone from Australia (the file would be named 'page-chris.DontAllow')
yahoo.com
mother-in-law@aol.com
.au
