Think of a "white list" as a list of good guys, whose email you want to set to always receive.

You should whitelist the e-mail addresses of well-known legitimate senders to avoid the chance of them being mis-identified by the SpamAssassin default rules.

For example:

whitelist_from   director_8345@hotmail.com   
whitelist_from   @advosys.ca                 # whitelist one specific sender
whitelist_from   @securityfocus.com          # whitelist an entire domain

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