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Managing Blacklists and Whitelists
A blacklist is a list of email addresses that a user does not want to receive emails from.
With McAfee Quarantine Manager, users can create a personal blacklist, which is used
in addition to the global or group blacklists you maintain. Messages from blacklisted
addresses are always treated as spam. Every email sent to a user is matched against
the appropriate blacklists and, if a match is found, they will not receive the message.
A whitelist is a list of email addresses that a user always wants to receive emails from.
With McAfee Quarantine Manager, users can create a personal whitelist, which is used
in addition to any global or group whitelists maintained by you. All messages from a
whitelisted address are treated as non-spam. Every email sent to a user is matched
against the whitelist and, if a match is found, they will normally receive the message.
Messages from email addresses in the whitelist are not subject to phish or spam
scanning, though they are still subjected to other types of scanning.
You can use the
Blacklists and Whitelists option to view and edit the lists for a selected
user or you can look at a summary of the global lists and group lists. In addition, you
can import and export any user’s blacklists and whitelists from or to an XML file, and
can also define user groups as lists of email addresses or references to existing user
groups.
Figure 9-1 Blacklist and Whitelists