[Alpine-info] whitelisting addresses?

[D. Hugh Redelmeier via Alpine-info]

(I will top-post because Karen finds that easier to read.)

(Karen and I are also on the Greater Toronto Area Linux Users Group 
mailing list.)

I don't know much about wrangling GMail: I avoid GMail as much as 
possible.  Luckily some other list members seem to know more.



> From: Karen Lewellen <klewellen at shellworld.net>

> 

> 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.

> >

>