Trusted email addresses, domains, and even IP addresses can be whitelisted or in other words, stored in a database for future connections. Only emails from a whitelisted source will be delivered to the user’s inbox. This method is actually great to eliminate spam emails.
The problem is it can produce false positives. This means emails [...]
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Whitelisting – An Effective Form Of Spam Protection
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010Getting Email To Pass Through Spam Filters
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009The anti-spam technology today are quite smart in filtering spam emails. By implementing various techniques spam filters are able to know the differences between a legitimate email and a junk. However, because spammers also learn to outsmart the spam filtering software on the market today, often a legitimate email ended up in a spam folder. [...]