Creating Individual Whitelist or Blacklist Filters
White-listing is a term that refers to the individualized filters you build to protect specific mail that is incorrectly being identified as spam. Black-listing refers to the filters you create to indicate that a message is unwanted, even if it has not been identified as spam by SpamAssassin. Even when you are using the tags provided by SpamAssassin, you will probably want to create some of these specific individual filters.
In the case of whitelist filters, each individualized filter you build will need to come in sequence *before* the filter that contains X-Score-High: YES. (By default, newly-created filters do come first, so this should happen automatically.) In addition, you can always manage the sequence of filtering using your mail program's interface for filter management.
Using the menu commands described below, you can set up an individual filter to ensure that mail meeting specific criteria goes to your Inbox, Spam folder, or elsewhere.
Netscape 7.x and Mozilla Thunderbird:
Build filters in advance using the Tools->Message Filters
menu or, when a message arrives that you want to create
a filter for, select the message and choose Message->Create
Filter from Message.
Outlook XP:
Build filters in advance using the Tools->Rules Wizard
or, when a message arrives that you want to create a filter
for, select the message and do a right click on it and choose
Create Rule.
Entourage (Mac Office):
Build filters using the Tools->Rules option. Select
your mail account type such as Mail (IMAP) and then click
on the New button to build your filters.
Eudora 5.1:
Use the Tools->Filters menu
OS X Mail:
Use Mail->Preferences->Rules->Add Rule
Please note that if you are filtering centrally with procmail instead of with your desktop mail program, your filters will need to be developed as described on the related page.