The former versions of Mumara offered two types of suppression only, one was to manage the Suppressed Emails and the second was specific for Email Domains. The scope for suppression has been enhanced with the addition of a new feature to create a suppression list of specific IPs, along with the readily available options to suppress emails and domains. The process of suppressing IPs is similar to what we have discussed for Domain Suppression. Following are the steps to create an IP suppression list.
a) IPs for Suppression
The box needs to be filled with the IPs that you want to add to the suppression list. IPs should be separated with a line, or if the IPs belong to the same range, a hyphen or forward slash can be used to put forward multiple IPs from the same range. Forward slash would automatically determine the number of IPs in your block and will add it for suppression while adding multiple IPs with a hyphen will only add the number of IPs mentioned.
Example entry using hyphen can be 192.168.0.1-20 will add IPs from 1 to 20.
Example entry using / can be 192.168.0.1/24 will add a block of 256 IPs of /24 range.
The following figure points out the sample entry for the IPs of the same range. Adding particular IPs to the suppression list would help to prevent bots to fill your counter with fake opens, or you can put forward the IPs that may appear to have been associated with spam traps, etc.
b) List (Suppression List)
The suppressed IPs will affect only the selected list or type of suppression you have applied. Following are the options.
1) Global Suppression
If selected, it will have an effect across all the lists, which means that if the subscriber of any of the list(s) opens an email with the matching IP provided for suppression, the application will automatically suppress that IP for further emailing across all the lists. So the global suppression option isn't limited to a specific list.
If selected, suppression will only have an effect on a specific selected list. For example, if an IP 192.168.0.1 was provided for suppression, and list "A" was selected, the IP would only be suppressed if the application finds it in the list "A". After an email contact in the list "A" with the same IP opens the sent email, the application automatically suppresses it, and no future emails will be sent to this IP address of list "A". But if the same email address exists in list "B", it will not be omitted during future email campaigns. Global Suppression is the right option if you want to suppress the IP address globally across all the lists.
IPs and IP range that you will provide for suppression will start appearing in the table on the left side of the page.
S/N | Following the general pattern of all view page across the application, the first column of the view table shows the serial number of records in ascending order (1-10) |
IP Range` | IP addresses, or IP range that has been provided for suppression. |
List | Name of the selected list to have an effect of this suppression |
Minimum IP | If the block, range of IP addresses has been provided, in this column, the application shows the minimum IP address from the range/block. |
Maximum IP | The IP block ranges from the previous column's minimum IP to that maximum IP address in this column. |
Added On | The date when the IP was actually being suppressed. |
Here are a couple of actions, which the buttons under the “Actions” column allow performing.
Edit | Press to edit the IP(s) provided for suppression, or the list it will have an effect on |
Delete | Press the button to remove the particular entry from the suppression list. |