[Alpine-info] alpine and whitelisting?

[Carlos E. R. via Alpine-info]

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On Thursday, 2024-11-28 at 16:15 +0100, Rob Wolfconf via Alpine-info wrote:

> Dear Karen,



>> Is the only way to white list in alpine via a spam filtering program?

>

> No. Alpine is IMAP client, not antispam filter. You have to do it on

> the server, probably in the WebUI. Only thing you can do is to create

> filter, which moves all emails from Junk Folder to INBOX as soon as

> you open Junk folder in alpine.


You can also do it on the client, but indirectly.

On Linux, you can use a tool to download email, like fetchmail. This 
handles the mail to an MTA, this to a sorting tool, like procmail, which 
calls spamassassin as a part of the process, then finally Alpine.

But you loose the immediacy of imap.

- -- 
Cheers,
        Carlos E. R.
        (from openSUSE 15.5 x86_64 at Telcontar)

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