5.2   Whitelisting Previous Recipients

For added safety, you can specify that addresses that you’ve sent mail to will never send you spam. To do this in:

Apple Mail

Open the Rules section of Mail’s Preferences window and edit the SpamSieve rule. Change the condition that says Every Message to Sender is not in my Previous Recipients. Mail will then assume that such messages are good, without showing them to SpamSieve.

Entourage

Create an outgoing rule that uses this AppleScript to add your messages’ recipients to SpamSieve’s whitelist.

Eudora

Open Eudora’s Junk Mail settings and make sure that Mail isn’t junk if the sender is in an address book is checked. Eudora automatically adds your recipients to its History List, which is considered to be part of the address book.

Mailsmith

Create a rule that uses this AppleScript to add your sent messages’ recipients to SpamSieve’s whitelist.

Outlook

Create an outgoing rule that uses this AppleScript to add your messages’ recipients to SpamSieve’s whitelist.

Postbox

Select Do not mark mail as junk if the sender is in Collected Addresses in Postbox’s Accounts preferences.

PowerMail

Create an outgoing filter that uses this AppleScript to add your messages’ recipients to SpamSieve’s whitelist.

Thunderbird

Select Do not mark mail as junk if the sender is in Collected Addresses in Thunderbird’s Account Settings window.

For Apple Mail, Eudora, and Thunderbird the above settings will completely hide these messages from SpamSieve. Thus:

1. You might not want to do this if you regularly receive spam messages that are forged so as to appear as though they were sent from one of your previous correspondents. SpamSieve won’t see the messages, so it will have no chance of catching them.
2. SpamSieve will not be able to auto-train itself with these messages. You should be sure to manually train it with some examples of these messages, so that it has seen some examples of good messages with this type of content.