The web interface allows you to set up eight distinct message
filters: four to identify messages to always keep, the Accept
filters; four to identify messages to always throw away,
the Discard filters. The Accept and Discard filters operate
on envelope and header source addresses, header destination
addresses, and phrases or words appearing in the SUBJECT: header
line or body of the message. The eight filters are thus known by
the names ACCEPT FROM, ACCEPT TO, ACCEPT SUBJECT, ACCEPT BODY,
DISCARD FROM, DISCARD TO, DISCARD SUBJECT, and DISCARD BODY.
The web interface also allows you to set up a forwarding address.
When you have a forwarding address set up, all of your mail that
you have decided to keep with your Accept filters will be sent to
that address instead of being delivered to your local account.
Note that the Accept and Discard filters are applied first,
and the vacation notice (if any) is also sent first, before the
message is forwarded.
The web interface also allows you to set up a vacation notice.
Set up a vacation notice when you want to send an automatic reply
to mail messages that you receive. The reply notifies the sender
that you are on vacation or otherwise away for an extended period
of time and may not respond to your mail until you return. The
web interface allows you to enable or disable the vacation notice
feature, to specify the subject and text that is included in the
vacation notice, and to set up some advanced options.
PMDF keeps a history of which addresses it has sent the vacation
notice to, and does not send another vacation notice to that same
address unless
o you change the text or subject of your vacation notice
o you enable the vacation notice feature after it has been
disabled
o the number of days that you specify in the web interface has
passed
Note that PMDF will not send the vacation notice if it determines
that the message was received through a mailing list.