6.3.7   Show Whitelist

The Show Whitelist command in the Filter menu opens the Whitelist window. The whitelist works the same way as the blocklist except that messages sent from addresses on the whitelist are never considered to be spam. The whitelist also has special support for mailing lists. If you train SpamSieve with a good message from a mailing list, it will add a rule to the whitelist that matches the message’s mailing list header (List-ID, List-Unsubscribe, or Mailing-List). Then SpamSieve will know that all messages from that mailing list are good, regardless of who sent them.

The whitelist is most commonly used for matching messages sent from particular addresses, domains, or mailing lists. You can also use the whitelist to create codewords. For instance, you could create a rule in the whitelist that matches subjects containing “eggplant” (or some other word unlikely to occur in regular mail). You can tell select people to put “eggplant” in the subject of messages that they send you, and then you can be assured that their messages will get through, even if the sender addresses are not in your address book or whitelist.