(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 <[email protected]>
> 
> 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 <[email protected]>
> >
> >> 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.
> >
> 
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