


Senders of incoming emails are matched against the auto-whitelist. Select this option to enable auto-whitelist. If selected, destination email addresses of outbound emails are automatically added to the auto-whitelist. Select the Auto Whitelist tab to configure the following options:.Specify the full path and filename of the file to use for importing the previously exported data.Ĭlick Export to export the current list of whitelist entries to an XML file.Use the Show Statistics button to view the total number of entries per whitelisted domain. Click Search to display the list of matching terms.In Search, key in the details of the whitelist entry to search for.Select one or more whitelist entries from the Whitelist list.(Optional) In Description add a description to the entry.In Email Type specify the email header field to match for the emails to be whitelisted. In Email Address/Domain, provide the email address/domain to whitelist.Select/Unselect Enable email whitelist to enable/disable whitelist. From the Whitelist tab, configure the email addresses and domains to whitelist.Navigate to GFI MailEssentials > Anti-Spam > Whitelist.The next section provides step by step instructions on how to set up and configure the Whitelist criteria: Whitelist affects only Anti-Spam filters and not email security and content filtering.Whitelisting an internal user defeats the purpose of the Anti-Spoofing filter.Entering too many keywords increases the possibility of emails not getting filtered by GFI MailEssentials and delivered to users’ mailboxes. In Keyword Whitelist it is recommended to add terms that spammers do not use and terms that relate to the nature of your business, e.g.Using the Auto Whitelist feature is highly recommended since this eliminates a high percentage of false positives.The Whitelist and Auto Whitelist features are enabled by default.This may cause timeouts in the queries performed by GFI MailEssentials, and may delay the delivery of the emails. If the DNS server used for these queries is not configured correctly, the DNS queries performed by GFI MailEssentials may fail. From the GFI MailEssentials configuration, expand the Anti-Spam node.You can configure GFI MailEssentials perform such DNS queries using an alternate DNS server. By default, GFI MailEssentials will perform the DNS queries against the DNS server configured on the local machine. The GFI MailEssentials URI DNS Blocklist filter performs DNS queries to the blocklists enabled in GFI MailEssentials, using the URIs found in the email message body.Īll the queries done by this filter are done using DNS. The GFI MailEssentials URI DNS Blocklist filter verifies that the Unified Resource Identifiers (URIs) found in the email are not known to be used in spam emails.
