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A

Whitelist

is

a

list

of

e-mail

addresses

or

domain

names

from

which

an

e-mail

blocking

program

will

allow

messages

to

be

received.

For

example,

by

including

the

domain

"

@umbc.edu"

in

your

email's

Whitelist,

all

messages

that

come

from

addresses

"

@umbc.edu"

will

pass

through

the

email

program's

spam

filtering

system.

If

the

Whitelist

only

contained

a

specific

address

from

this

domain,

such

as

"

email@umbc.edu,"

only

messages

from

the

sender

"

email@umbc.edu"

would

be

certain

to

pass

through.

A

Whitelist

is

often

used

to

compensate

for

a

spam-filtering

system

that

is

inadvertently

identifying

legitimate

emails

as

spam

.