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Make Sure You Get Your Newsletters and Other Good Mail on a Mac

Do you get all the messages you want to get or is an overzealous spam filter interfering? If you know the sender's email address or domain, you can make sure newsletters, for example, make it to your Inbox, no matter what (else) the spam filter might think.

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Prevent Mac OS X Mail From Filtering Known Senders' Mail as Spam

Help Mac OS X Mail's spam filter avoid mistakes by telling it who you know — and never to treat messages from these senders as junk.

Whitelist a Domain in Mac OS X Mail

Mac OS X Mail lets you exclude individual email addresses from spam filtering. Here's how to protect all mail from a domain in one swoop, too

POPFile: Make Sure It Never Thinks Newsletters are Spam

Make sure you'll never have to re-classify your favorite newsletters. Here's how to hard-wire them to a certain bucket in POPFile.

SpamAssassin: Whitelist a Sender or Domain

SpamAssassin is precise, but not perfect. To make sure its spam filters don't catch important mail, here's how to whitelist individual senders or whole domains.

Your ISP: Make Sure They Don't Block Your Newsletters

In a laudable effort to curb down on spam, many Internet Service Providers are filtering junk mail before it can reach you, and sometimes catch good mail, too. Here's how to talk to your ISP to make sure you're getting all your favorite newsletters without interruption.

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