[Alpine-info] whitelisting addresses?

[Andrew C Aitchison via Alpine-info]

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


> Let me be more specific to avoid confusion.

> When google removed the inclusive access to gmail via basic HTML, I secured a 

> service that gives me access to it, using alpine, via imap.

> That service does not really know much about how alpine works.

> There are times when gmail places items into its spam folder that should not 

> be placed there.

> In basic html I could say add that address to contacts avoiding the issue.

> Now though this door is closed.

> I seek a method within alpine itself, as the email client, that  manages this 

> process.

> Does one exist?


If I understand correctly, GMail puts messages in the spam folder before
imap sees them, so there is no way that Alpine can stop them from going 
in.

There may (or may not) be a hook in Alpine where you could add
something which reads the spam folder by imap and moves selected
messages out to some other folder.
Can anyone say whether there is such a hook - Eduardo ?

There is probably a way within GMail that you (or someone sitting beside
you at the screen) can whitelist certain addresses. You would have to do 
this each time you wanted to whitelist a new sender, but from then on
messages from that person are likely to stay in your inbox rather than
the spam folder. I say "likely to" because my undertanding is that
GMail does not work in absolutes.

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Andrew C. Aitchison                      Kendal, UK
                    andrew at aitchison.me.uk