Utilities: Members: Bans: New/Edit Ban

For complete information on how member bans work, and the member bans main page, see Utilities: Members: Bans.

User Name (lower-case)

Enter the user name of the member that you want to ban. This is everything to the left of the "@" symbol in their email address. For instance, if the member to ban has an email address of Jane_Trouble@example.company.com, enter "Jane_trouble" in this field. Note that you can enter names in any case, but they are saved in lower case. When entering a user name, it should not have the complete name of the user, i.e. "Jane Trouble" <jane_trouble@example.company.com>. Only the user name portion (jane_trouble), should be entered, as members cannot be banned on their name, only the user name.

Domain (lower-case)

Enter the domain of the member that you want to ban. This is everything to the right of the "@" symbol in their email address. In the above example, you would enter "example.company.com". The domain name can also be entered in any case, but will be saved in lower case.

Type

There are three types of bans:

     1. Always accept

     2. Conditionally accept

     3. Reject

A record found in "Always accept" is accepted with no further processing. Records found in "Conditionally accept" will be accepted if no explicit reject information is found. Records found in "Reject" are rejected automatically, if matched.

Example: If I create rules to always accept the domain name "example.com", and conditionally accept "yourdomain.com", but reject "yourname@yourdomain.com", anything at "example.com" will always be allowed, "abc@yourdomain.com" will be conditionally accepted- that is, it will be accepted unless explicitly rejected (but since it is not banned it will be accepted), and "yourname@yourdomain.com" would be conditionally accepted, but since it is on the Reject list, it will be rejected. In tabular form:

Note that if there are accept rules, either conditional or always accept, then failure to match one of those rules means the member is rejected. The member must match both rules in order to be accepted. If an accepted person tries to submit a posting or subscribe to your list, they will always be allowed. Everyone else will be rejected.

There is no wildcarding of information in the user name or domain fields. Any email address that is checked is searched for the entire domain provided, and every subdomain. So if "yourdomain.com" is banned, then fred@example.yourdomain.com will also be caught and banned. This is only true of the domain field (right of the @ symbol), and does not apply to the username field (left of the @ symbol).

Applies to

Set the list, site, or server, that that member ban applies to. The options you see here will depend on your privileges, whether you are a list, site, or server administrator. For example, if you are a site administrator, you will be able to create list or site bans, but not server bans. The Applies to field defaults to the current list.

For information on how to specify one server to handle all banned members, see Utilities: Server: Server Settings: Advanced: Global Ban Settings.

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