Can you white list in Apple Mail?

The problem with adding to contacts is that you can't tell junk to ignore a whole domain, like apple.com, you have to put each and every address and that means that a new address from that domain can still be flagged as junk.

Not sure what you mean by "Trust Junk email headers selected". Where do I select that and what does it mean?

Oh, of course. I've never noticed that particular setting in the junk settings. I think I am going to turn off junk filtering in Apple Mail and configure using my host provider Cpanel spam filtering as it allows for white listing. The only thing with doing that is it only covers my own domain, but not gmail accounts. Seems gmail servers are actually pretty good at identifying spam though. I can also make a spam rule and keep adding to it as needed.

Just surprising that Apple's junk filer is so poorly designed for white listing. Something I just noticed I can also do easily is block a sender right in the email by clicking on the sender email and choosing "block contact". Easier than adding to a junk filter, actually.

I find that some emails I want to receive end up in the junk folder because Apple thinks they are junk when they are not. Some are actually very important. so I need a way to make sure those emails are never ever treated as junk. Seems a pretty vital and obvious feature every other junk filter there is provides, but not Apple Mail. So that surprises me.

If you have never found a legit email in your junk folder, you are pretty lucky!

If you go and change your email, you would normally contact all your friends and let them know. No reason to expect your new email to go to junk. In fact, the white listing is mainly for corporate stuff which gets flagged as spam by mistake. Not usually from individuals.

I think you have it backwards. A white list just assures you that an email sent to you will not be inappropriately flagged as spam. Having no white list might mean that nothing is ever blocked. It's just insurance that it won't. Or, to put it another way, if you like getting ads about say, nail fungus, Apple's algorithm might flag that as spam, but if you want it anyway, you can make a white list rule which says to allow it.

If your health provider changes their email, there is no reason to assume they won't get through to you as most do, it's just in case they, for instance, write to you about nail fungus. That might trigger the spam filter, so white listing avoids that. Make sense?

All I can say is if I want to know the latest investment which is going to go up 100x, where to lose weight or get a Russian bride, I know thanks to spam emails.