HP StorageWorks Reference Information Storage System V1.0 Administrator Guide (May 2004)

Routing Filters Panel, PAM Window Chapter 3: Persist Account Manager
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Routing Filters Panel, PAM Window
You use the Routing Filters panel of the PAM window to create, edit, or delete a
routing filter, or to choose the repositories associated with a routing filter.
A
routing filter checks the email domains that appear in all of the addresses of
each email. For each domain in an email that matches the
Email Domain of a
routing filter, both of the following occur:
• All simple routing rules with that domain are checked against the email.
The simple routing rules that match the email are then applied (routing
the email to the repositories associated with the rules).
• The email is routed to the repository ( Repository ID ) defined for the filter—
provided the
Repository ID of the filter does not include the special value
R0000000 Catchall Repository .
This means that a routing filter has two possible uses, both based on which
domains appear in email addresses:
• It filters emails before simple routing rules try to match them: only the
rules with the right email domains are tried.
• It routes emails from a specific domain to a specific repository. (In this
case, it is typically used to associate an audit repository with an email
domain.)
After filtering, each email is always checked against complex routing rules.
This is so regardless of the result of filtering (possible routing by simple rules
and/or filter).
R0000000 Catchall Repository
The special value R0000000 Catchall Repository is an exception. A filter with this
value in the
Repository ID does not route email to the catch-all repository. It
does
not , itself, route mail to any repository; rather, it serves only as a filter
before checking simple routing rules.
You can create a routing filter with the special value
R0000000 Catchall Repos-
itory
by choosing Catchall Repository in the Select Repository dialog box – see
below. Do this when you want only to filter email before checking simple
routing rules, without also routing email directly to a repository based on the
email domain.