Accessing Services at OA5 / YASK / Irial: So how do addresses get whitelisted?

	Accessing Services at OA5 / YASK / Irial : My Email : About SPAM : So how do addresses get whitelisted?
	When you send mail through the OA5 servers, either by using webmail or by making an authenticated connexion from your mail program (eg Mulberry, Eudora, Outlook etc) any address you send to (or CC) will be whitelisted. This whitelisting lasts for 2 years from the last time you send to an address. Some addresses are permanantly addred because we put them in with system privelage. NB mail sent from your website does not add addresses to the whitelist
	When someone is whitelisted, they can send to you, without their mail being checked. In general this is a Good Thing, but ... Some virus programs use addresses out of the address books they find on the machines they infect as the from address for sending out more virus copies. If they chose a whitelisted address to send from you are less protected. As general advice, NEVER open unexpected attachments, and always keep your anti-virus software up to date (or start using linux or a Mac)
	Also it's probably a bad idea to use a vacation program on your PC, as you might inadvertantly whitelist a spam-source. Please use mail-delivery vacation processing on our servers, see: Can I set up Automatic Replies and Vacation Messages?
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	andrewATknotsDOTnet
	2006-Jun-21 15:04

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