Mail Receive Rules
Defines the rules by which Lyris List Manager determines whether or not mail should be processed.
By default, Lyris List Manager looks at the username of email it receives to determine whether it should process the message. The host name portion of the mail address is not consulted. It does
this to support any number of virtual hosts without needing to be configured. By default, Lyris List Manager will automatically assume the hostname identity of any email it receives which is
addressed to a valid Lyris List Manager user name.
This Mail Receive Rules option allows you to change this default behavior, so that Lyris List Manager first looks at the rules you have defined, and if the local recipient address does not match a
rule, the message is not processed.
The Mail Receive Rules are simple text search rules. For example, to accept any mail addressed to the "yourcompany.com" domain, the rule would be:
This would allow any of these different addresses to be received:
lyris@yourcompany.com
lyris@lists.yourcompany.com
lyris@discussions.yourcompany.com
But any address which did not have "yourcompany.com" in it would be rejected. If your rule was "@yourcompany.com", only the first example above "lyris@yourcompany.com" would be
accepted.
The most common use for this feature is if you are using Lyris List Manager in front of another mail server, and you want to make sure that Lyris List Manager only accepts mail addressed to itself,
and forwards on any mail addressed otherwise. If you have told it to "Forward non-Lyris Mail" to another location, any mail which does not match a "Mail Receive Rule" will automatically be
forwarded on to the other server. See Forward Mail.
If you do not have "Forward non-Lyris Mail" defined, then mail which does not match a Mail Receive Rule will simply be rejected.
You can define multiple Mail Receive Rules, each on a separate line
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