[Alpine-info] whitelisting addresses?

[Karen Lewellen via Alpine-info]

Hi Andrew,
as shared I no longer have any direct access to gmail. Nor do I know who 
*someone* is.
These days, speaking personally, I resonate with your gmail not working in 
absolutes stance.
Would not risk tampering with my setup for sure.
Kare



On Wed, 3 Sep 2025, Andrew C Aitchison via Alpine-info wrote:


> 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.

>

> -- 

> Andrew C. Aitchison                      Kendal, UK

>                   andrew at aitchison.me.uk

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