MEFilter as a MailEnable Filter
Thursday, August 06, 2009 - 11:58 - Support
Heres a 'Quick & Dirty' filter setup guide:
- Open Mail Enable console/MMC snapin and navigate to 'Mailenable Management' > 'Messaging Manager' > 'Filters'. You should see a filter in there called 'AntiVirus', but dont worry if its not there.
- Right click in the right-hand pane and select 'New' > 'New Filter...'. Name the filter 'MEFilter' or something like that.
- A new filter called 'MEFilter' should now be in the list. Right click on it, and select 'Manage..'. A new window called 'Filter Management' pops up.
- In the pop-up, make sure 'Use standard criteria' is selected. Scroll down the list of 'disabled/enabled' items until you see 'All Messages - Process this filter actions for all messages' and double click on it. Select 'Enabled'. It should now show was enabled in the list.
- At the bottom of the pop-up click the 'Add Action' button, and then scroll down the resulting list and select 'Execute Application', then 'OK' it, which reveals another window.
- In this window make sure 'Enabled' is ticked, then in the 'Application to execute:' textarea enter the full path to MEFilter.exe. For example: "D:\Program Files\Mail Enable\MEFilter\mefilter.exe". In the 'Parameters:' textarea enter "[ID] [CONNECTOR]" (without the quotes), then 'OK' the window.
- Make sure that 'Execute and application' is ticked in the 'Actions' pane of the 'Filter Management' window, then close it.
Now ME should run MEFilter each time a message is processed.
To check its working you should start to see stuff land in the 'Holding' area, provided you have 'Enabled' at least one form or filtering in the MEFilter console settings (i suggest enabling 'Spam Filtering' with defaults first of all). You have to DOUBLE CLICK on the holding folder by the way to see subfolders. If theres nothing look at your MTA logs, available from within the ME snapin under 'Servers > localhost > Filters > Mail Enable Message Filter > Logs > Filters', or through the filesystem in the ME logs directory. There should be an event in the latest 'MTAFILTER-Report-??????.log'