How do I stop SpamAssassin from labeling some particular mail as spam?
Well, presumably you got SpamAssassin working for you, and it will have created in your UNIX home directory a file named .spamassassin/user_prefs. Using your favourite UNIX text editor you can modify that file to personalize how SpamAssassin classifies your mail. whitelist_from patterns can be added to this file, one line for each email address you want to accept mail from. For example, if you add: whitelist_from fbaggins*@*uwaterloo.ca whitelist_from gandalf*@*uwaterloo.ca to your .spamassassin/user_prefs file, then all mail which appeared to come from variations of fbaggins@uwaterloo.ca or gandalf@uwaterloo.ca would never be tagged as “spam”. This will avoid accidentally classifying mail from that person as “spam”, but beware that if mail was forged to appear to come from that address, it would still be accepted. For example, do NOT add something like: whitelist_from *@*uwaterloo.ca Since a lot of “spam” is forged to appear to come from uwaterloo.ca, and so you would get a lot of “sp
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