[Alpine-info] whitelisting addresses?

[Lucio Chiappetti via Alpine-info]

On Tue, 2 Sep 2025, Karen Lewellen via Alpine-info wrote:


> Unsure if I asked about this before.


Yes you did on August 17 (or at least I replied on such date). Please 
search the archives.


> Still, what is the process in alpine to whitelist email addresses?


There is no way that a Mail User Agent like alpine does a whitelisting on 
its input sources (i.e. in most cases IMAP folders), which are filled by a 
Mail Delivery Agent.

If you'd have full control on your MDA (which is not the case when you are 
receiving mail on a commercial provider), than you could insert some form 
of spam filtering like spamassassin or procmail able to whitelist.

If your input  IMAP folders are filled by a commercial provider, there is 
nothing you can do to whitelist. What you could do is accessing the 
provider spam folder and recover the false positives.

I don't think most commercial providers can be instructed to learn what 
you tag as no spam (definitely not gmail).