Setting an Email Whitelist in Mozilla Mail

You can create a whitelist mail filter so that Mozilla Mail will file mail from particular senders into a folder of your choice regardless of its X-Spam-Level. This is useful for bypassing your Spam filter when email that is marked as Spam is actually something you want to receive.

To edit/create mail filters in Mozilla Mail select Tools, Message Filters...

Click the New... button on the right hand side. First give your new filter a relevant name (such as Whitelist). Click on the drop down box that currently has "Subject" selected and select "Sender" instead. In the drop down box to the right select "is" then in the final box input the e-mail address of the person you would like to receive mail from regardless of it's "X-Spam-Level".

You may set up a Whitelist for many addresses or even all mail from sent from an entire domain. In order to do this click the More button on the left and then select the appropriate details. For example, as detailed below, we have chosen to receive all mail coming from anyone that contains notspam.com in their email address.

Next click the checkbox next to "Move to folder:" and from the drop down box to the right, select where you would like to file your mail. Then click OK.

Filters are applied in order. Once a filter has been matched it will not check other filters. Therefore it is necessary to have Whitelist above your Spam filter(s) to ensure it has priority.

If necessary, with the Whitelist mail filter selected, click the Move Up button on the right to move Whitelist above your Spam filter(s).

In this example all mail sent from afriend@anymail.com and any e-mail address containing notspam.com will be sent to the Inbox regardless of the X-Spam-Level in the e-mail header.