---
title: "How to Edit a User-Level Email Filter in cPanel"
description: "Change the rules, action or name of an existing user-level email filter in cPanel for a single mailbox, and confirm the result with the Filter Test box."
url: "https://docs.noiz.ie/email/how-to-edit-a-user-level-email-filter-in-cpanel/"
section: "Email"
categories:
  - "Email > Spam & Filtering"
last_reviewed: "27 July 2026, against the current cPanel & WHM release"
---

# How to Edit a User-Level Email Filter in cPanel

A user-level email filter in cPanel sorts, redirects, or discards messages for a single email address on your account, without touching the other mailboxes. This guide shows you how to change a filter that already exists: adjust the rules it matches on, change what it does with a matching message, or rename it.

A **user-level filter** applies to one specific email account only. If you need a rule that applies to every address on the account, edit an account-level (global) filter instead.

**Last reviewed:** 27 July 2026, against the current cPanel & WHM release. This guide is written for Noiz hosting and is kept current against cPanel. It complements, and does not replace, the official cPanel documentation linked below.

### Official Documentation Reference

- [cPanel: Email Filters](https://docs.cpanel.net/cpanel/email/email-filters/)

## Prerequisites

- A hosting plan that uses the cPanel control panel, and your cPanel sign-in details.
- An email account that already has at least one filter to edit.

## Edit a User-Level Email Filter

1. Log in to your cPanel account.
2. In the **Email** section, click **Email Filters**. ![The Email Filters icon in the Email section of cPanel](/img/user-level-filtering-icon.gif)
3. Under **Filters by Users**, you see every email account on your hosting. Click **Manage Filters** next to the address whose filter you want to change. ![The Manage Filters link next to an email account under Filters by Users in cPanel](/img/manage-filter-by-user-level.gif)
4. Under **Current Filters**, click **Edit** next to the filter you want to change. ![The Edit link next to an existing filter under Current Filters in cPanel](/img/edit-filter.gif)
5. Make your changes. You can rename the filter, adjust the matching rules (for example the field to check, such as **Body** or **From**, and the condition to match, such as **contains**), and change the action cPanel takes when a message matches, such as **Discard Message** or **Deliver to Folder**.
6. Click **Save**.

## Good to Know

- Filters run in order, from the top of the list downwards. Editing a filter does not move it. If your edited rule needs to run before another one, reorder the filters on the same Manage Filters page.
- Your changes apply to mail that arrives after you save. Messages already delivered to the mailbox are not re-filtered.
- Use the **Filter Test** box at the bottom of the Manage Filters page to paste a sample message and confirm the edited filter behaves the way you expect before you rely on it.

If you are on a managed Noiz plan and would like Noiz to review or fine-tune your email filtering, open a support ticket from your client area and the team will take care of it for you.

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Source: https://docs.noiz.ie/email/how-to-edit-a-user-level-email-filter-in-cpanel/