"This sender is not spam" / "Add to safe senders"

[axelcome]

Hey friends,

A feature which exists on most email apps (at least Outlook) is that when a legitimate email/sender falsely gets sent into the spam folder, one can choose to say the sender is safe, meaning the email automatically gets put back into the regular inbox, and all of the same sender's future emails land in the regular inbox instead of the spam folder. Currently I always have to switch back to Outlook to do this when I (often) receive legit mail in my spam.

Thanks,

Axel

[Jon]

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[MattAuSupport]

The white list for junk email is your address book.  So the feature already exists within Thunderbird.  Just click the black and white icon beside the From in the message header to add the sender to your address book.  Click it again to edit the entry and choose the address book you added the person to.  AS the personal address book is often not where you want to store your whitelist contacts.

None of that will help with server side spam filtering and if you "have to use Outlook" you may well be interacting with a nonstandard compliant Microsoft "feature" only available in Outlook connected to Exchange.