Mail Whitelist
A mail whitelist is a list of SENDERs known to you. Not junk or spam.
The reason for using a whitelist, is that it prevents known senders from ending up in your Junk mail box.
For instance, your whitelist might be:
All senders who's address END WITH:
- .chase.com
- @chase.com
- .wellsfargo.com
- @wellsfargo.com
- .irs.gov
- @irs.gov
You certainly wouldn't want these to go to your Junk mail.
Or if you're a programmer, you might say something like:
Ends with: [@.]{irs.gov,chase.com,wellsfargo.com}
Either way, what we have today with Apple Mail Rules, makes it impractical to make a Whitelist. Here's why?
- Yeah, I know, I can have it search the "known" email addresses in my Contacts. But that doesn't work, because I can't put EVERY possible address that Chase.com might use (today and in the future) to send me important information to me. There are probably 50-100 addresses when you consider all of the variations, and new variations are added frequently.
- The other problem is, that even if I code "END WITH" in a giant rule containing my whitelist, I still need an automated way to tell Apple-Mail these are "NOT JUNK".
- I see no documentation telling me how to do that. Any secret tricks?
- I don't want to stop processing the rest of the Rules, because some of these things on the whitelist WILL be processed by other Rules.
Even if there were an undocumented trick to tell Apple Mail to NOT process Junk filter for a particular email, how would I reasonably expect that to work after the next couple of Updates?
Lastly, too bad the rules don't allow a "NOT" feature for every parameter. If so, I could somewhat easily add the list to the "Advanced" Junk Mail options by saying:
- ...
- NOT (ends with: @chase.com)
- NOT (ends with: .chase.com)
- ... etc
Best solution would be to simply allow a whitelist (with some wildcards, or Ends With).
Any other ideas out there?
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