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When the email 'sent' by the user themselves, we call this as spoofing. The way it works is someone else's computer that contains your domain email in its address book, is infected with a virus. The virus sends unsolicited mail to everyone listed in the book, and uses the electronic mailing address of the person whose computer has been infected as the sender.
If you would like to stop this type of email immediately, you may add the processing rules so that whenever the field 'from' contain the user email address, it will be sent to the Junk folder. However, this only applicable if the user (username@yourdomain.com or username2@yourdomain.com) never send/cc themselves an email.
Please follow the steps given below to create the processing rule:-
Smartermail 4.x
1. Log on to the Webmail (http://mail.yourdomain.com) and log in by using the user account.
2. Roll over your cursor over the 'Settings' and select 'My Content Filtering'
3. Click the 'Add Filter' button and check the 'From specific addresses' under 'From Address'. Press 'Next' button
4. Enter your own email address in the the 'From addresses' field. Press 'Next'
5. Simply enter any name for this rule at 'Rule Name' field
6. Check the 'Move message to folder' and select 'Junk E-Mail' at the Folder drop down menu under the 'Actions'
7. Click 'Save' and you have done.
* This is ONLY applicable for SmarterMail user(s)
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