At my cpanel, on the backup section, there is an option to do a backup of "filters" and "alises". What are these?
If you've setup email aliases or forwards and filters; this utility will back them up so that you don't have to type them all in again.
uuhh.... could you tell me what an email alias is? Geez... I feel like if I was 5 years old now An example would be helpful
Fryman, "filters" and "aliases" on the backup section of cpanel are not related to email at all. Instead, they refer to subdomains, although their redirection works exactly the same as with email aliases. You can have subdomain . mydomain . com which is redirected to your main domain www . mydomain . com You can use this to allow for common typing errors. For example, at lot of people type two or four w's instead of three. Using an alias, you can redirect users entering ww . mydomain . com to the correct url www . mydomain . com There are other uses, of course, but I'm sure you get the picture.
I'm sorry; but you are incorrect. It has to do with email - the email aliases and filters setup under subdomains; but nothing to do with subdomains otherwise. Try downloading and opening the backup file or filter file in a text editor and you'll see.. The filter looks like this: # Exim filter if error_message then finish endif if $header_from: contains "the spammer" or $header_from: contains "idiot@spammer.com" then save "/dev/null" 660 endif this sends any email from the spammer and to dev/null - in other words the user never sees it; as long as they've set up the filter in cpanel. Fryman; an email alias forwards to another email address. IE: could forward to as long as it's setup in your cpanel, or any other control panel out there.
I see nothing of the sort. cPanel has both files for all my subdomains, and they're all empty even though I use email forwarding...
Probably your version. I have the most up to date version. Download a backup file Full Backup Generate/Download a Full Backup Download today's backup file: Download Download an SQL Database Backup Download an Aliases Backup domain.com Download a Filters Backup domain.com Then; if I rename that .com file I downloaded to .txt; it shows me all of my aliases and filters I've set up. They match the .filters file that is below your root directory; and the alias file that is elsewhere on the server that a user cannot get to. My subdomain ones are empty; because technically; you don't have email for subdomains; they haven't come up with that as far as I know, though you can use . It will show up under the main domain alias file. {edit} I just tested; setup an alias for one of my subdomains and it did show in the alias file on the server, as well as the backup area. I ought to test things more often!