SOLVED Accept mail from certain TLD's only block everything else

[ampapa]

Is it possible using CPanel to accept email from only the following TLD's (com|net|org|int|edu|gov|mil|coop|us) and reject everything else?

This seems like it should be relatively easy to do but I've searched the internet and the forums and am coming up blank with specific instruction on how to accomplish this feat...

Thanks for any information you can provide.

ampapa,

 

[keat63]

Pretty easy from a domain side using Global Filters.
Login in to the domain Cpanel, create a global filter based on 'from ... does not end with'
or 'from .......does not contain'
A little experimentation I'm sure you'll achieve what you want.

On a server level, it's probably a little more complex, but as a website owner, you won't have access at server level.

Global Email Filters - Version 76 Documentation - cPanel Documentation

 

[ampapa]

Appreciate the reply.

When creating a Global/User filter on the account I understand the accept 'from' concept but that creates a problem. The mail needs to follow one of the "Actions" listed below:

Email Filter Action Rules
Discard Message Deletes the message with no Failure message.
Redirect to Email Sends the email to another email address.
Fail with Message Deletes the email and sends a failure message..
Stop processing rules Does not run any filter rules.
Deliver to folder Sends the email to a specified folder.
Pipe to program Sends the email to a program or script on the server.

The only one that seems to apply is "Discard Message" but that would mean I would have to list each TLD "I DO NOT" want to accept mail from and that would be silly and not very useful.

What makes more sense is to accept mail from those TLD's I DO WANT mail from, that list is posted earlier, and none of these actions appear to allow the mail to further be tested it has to be directed to a certain mail box, again not useful.

I don't think a 'from' filter is going to work.

I need to filter TLD's and continue with mail processing, how do I do that?

ampapa,

 

[keat63]

If you create a filter "If from does not end with .com" - "Discard message", then anything coming from .biz would be discarded as it doesn't end with .com

something like the attached image ??

 

[ampapa]

I get the following when testing the filter... it matched something and was deleted.

here is the test data:

To: [email protected]
From: [email protected]
Subject: test

This is a test message.



The Filter has matched the following condition(s): 
(((((($header_from: does not end .com or $header_from: does not end .net) or $header_from: does not end .org) or $header_from: does not end .int) or $header_from: does not end .edu) or $header_from: does not end .gov) or $header_from: does not end .mil) or $header_from: does not end .us
   ((((($header_from: does not end .com or $header_from: does not end .net) or $header_from: does not end .org) or $header_from: does not end .int) or $header_from: does not end .edu) or $header_from: does not end .gov) or $header_from: does not end .mil
   (((($header_from: does not end .com or $header_from: does not end .net) or $header_from: does not end .org) or $header_from: does not end .int) or $header_from: does not end .edu) or $header_from: does not end .gov
   ((($header_from: does not end .com or $header_from: does not end .net) or $header_from: does not end .org) or $header_from: does not end .int) or $header_from: does not end .edu
   (($header_from: does not end .com or $header_from: does not end .net) or $header_from: does not end .org) or $header_from: does not end .int
   ($header_from: does not end .com or $header_from: does not end .net) or $header_from: does not end .org
   $header_from: does not end .com or $header_from: does not end .net
   $header_from: does not end .net

The folowing regex appears to be working... thanks for your idea.

.*@.*\.(?!(.*\.)?(com|net|org|int|edu|gov|mil|coop|us))

 

[keat63]

Now that it works, in the short term I would be tempted to deliver the unwanted ones to a specific folder instead of discard.
At least until you are happy that you didn't miss something important.
Typical that the most important email you ever needed would be dropped .

 

[cPanelMichael]

The folowing regex appears to be working... thanks for your idea.

.*@.*\.(?!(.*\.)?(com|net|org|int|edu|gov|mil|coop|us))

Thanks for sharing the outcome! I've marked this thread as solved.