Black List

Overview

The Black List options allow for general maintenance of the Black List, import, export capabilities and configuration of some of the default behaviors.

General

Expire Black List Entries After x Days

Due to spammers the Black List can get full rather quickly due to the use of random sender addresses. The emailAI Pro engine however overcomes this by allowing Black List entries that haven't received a match for a specified number of days to be automatically removed. Individual black list entries can be also set to Never Remove and Never White List.

POP Delete on Black List Match

Why download an email that is on the Black List, with this option enabled emailAI will pre-scan emails before downloading them from your POP Server. The emailAI Pro engine will first check to see if the sender is on the White List, if that check fails it will then check to see if the sender is on the Black List, if the sender is, the email is removed from the server without downloading it. The email is also removed from the POP server when this option is enabled when a positive DNSBL or IP Location match is made.

Actions

Extract from file

The emailAI Pro engine can scan through text or csv files and look for any valid emails addresses and automatically add them to the Black List. The format of the file is not important. This would typically be used in situations where an address book has been exported from a Mail Client and requires to be imported into the emailAI Pro engine. The emailAI Pro engine will only import addresses that don't currently exist and will not remove existing entries.

Import from file

This option is used to import Black List files that were created using the Export to file option. This allows the easy synchronisation between friends, relatives or different computers. emailAI will only import addresses that don't currently exist and will not remove existing entries.

Export to file

Use this option to export the Black List for backup purposes or to allow importing from another emailAI based system by the Import from file option.