How to Add an Email Address or Domain to Your Spam Sleuth Friends

If you're sleuthing spam, you'd better know who your friends are.

Especially if you use Spam Sleuth with its — somewhat faulty — default settings and without its Bayesian filtering enabled exclusively, it's a good idea to add known senders (friends, newsletter publishers,...) to the Friends list to make sure they don't stand a chance of being filed as spam mistakenly by Spam Sleuth.

I have added the "about.com" domain to this lit, for example, to make sure all the About newsletters I have subscribed to get past Spam Sleuth unhampered — whatever their content may be.

Add an Email Address or Domain to Your Spam Sleuth Friends

To add an email address or domain to your Spam Sleuth Friends list:

• ›› Step by Step Screenshot Walkthrough

• Select File | Configure... from the menu in Spam Sleuth.
• Go to the Friends category.
• Make sure Active is checked.
• Click in the entry field.
• Type the email addresses you want to whitelist.
  • Put each address on its own line.
  • To friends-list a whole domain, type the domain name preceded by "*@".
  • To whitelist the "about.com" domain, for example, type "*@about.com".
• Click OK.