[Alpine-info] alpine and whitelisting?

[Karen Lewellen via Alpine-info]

Hi Carlos,
Thanks for the details.
Immediacy is quite personally and professional critical for me, so I have no 
desire to download.
Will simply have to keep tabs on this one sender.
Best,
Karen



On Thu, 28 Nov 2024, Carlos E. R. via Alpine-info wrote:


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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.

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> 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.

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> But you loose the immediacy of imap.

>

> - -- Cheers,

>        Carlos E. R.

>        (from openSUSE 15.5 x86_64 at Telcontar)

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