[Alpine-info] whitelisting addresses?

[Karen Lewellen via Alpine-info]

Hi there!
Nice to find you here.
While you shared nothing new, your post got me wondering what would happen 
if I saved the contents of my not-spam folder back to my inbox?
I may test this, if my prior idea fails..the setup is rather fragile. I do 
not  want the soul providing the door to try and address the problem.
Cheers,
Karen



On Thu, 4 Sep 2025, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:


>> From: Karen Lewellen via Alpine-info <alpine-info at u.washington.edu>

>

>> Unsure if I asked about this before.

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

>

> Just to make things clearer (I'm not saying anything new):

>

> Alpine doesn't do SPAM classification or other blacklisting.

> So Alpine cannot have a setting to change SPAM classification or other

> blacklisting.

>

> Going a little further:

>

> If your upstream mail server sidelines some messages into a junk folders

> then Alpine could pick up those other folders.

>

> But I cannot imagine a way for Alpine to signal to the mail serverthat

> certain junked messages should be taken examples of non-SPAM.

>

> If you want to train your mail server (eg. gmail), you need to use its

> facilities to do so.  I understand that you cannot do that.

>