Richard Prosser wrote:

>> I don't know. The Gmail spam filter seems to be pretty good, but it's not
>> easily configurable. For example, I'd like to have an option that says "if
>> a label is applied to a message, automatically consider it as not spam".
>> But it doesn't seem to have anything like this.

> This may be of interest also (How to Whitelist on Gmail)
> <http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/how-to-whitelist-in-gmail>

This page is half wrong. 

The first half talks about how to create a filter. I have filters set up,
one for piclist messages. But Gmail nevertheless sometimes classifies a
message that went through the filter and got a label assigned as spam. So
this part doesn't work as white-listing. It is also not described as
working in the Gmail docs.

(FWIW, I had also assumed that if I had a filter set up, the filter caught
a message and assigned a label to it, that then Gmail would automatically
assume that this message is not spam. But this is obviously not the case.
There are pros and contras to this approach.)

>> The thing is that piclist@mit.edu is not the From: header. One workaround
>> could be to add all piclist contributors to your address book. With time,
>> this will avoid piclist messages being marked as spam.

The second part of that page (adding the message sender to your address
book) does seem to work (and it is also described as the AFAIK only method
of white-listing by Gmail). But it doesn't work with piclist@mit.edu,
because that doesn't appear as the message sender. You have to add the
individual piclist contributors.

Gerhard

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