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Make Sure Spam Bully Never Filters Newsletters as Spam

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With its Bayesian spam filtering, Spam Bully learns quickly what good mail looks like, and rarely will it produce a false positive.

But if Spam Bully is still in training, or to avoid a new newsletter mistakenly getting caught as spam, you can whitelist specific senders or domains in Spam Bully. I have whitelisted "about.com", for example, to make sure the About newsletters I am receiving never end in the Spam folder.

To make sure Spam Bully never filters newsletters as spam:

  • Select Email address from the Spam Bully toolbar.
  • Click Add under Approved/Friends list.
  • Type the email address you want to whitelist under Email address:.
    • To whitelist a domain, use the '*' wildcard character (which matches every char) and the domain name preceded by '@'.
    • To whitelist the "about.com" domain to make sure Spam Bully doesn't touch About newsletters type "*@about.com", for example.
  • Now type the contact or newsletter's name under Full name or company name:.
  • Click Add.
  • Click Close.

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