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Thursday, November 4th, 2021 11:58 AM

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email whitelist

The Xfinity whitelist would actually be useful if it were modified to support the following features:

1. Allow address book entries to be selectively added to the whitelist, instead of making a user type the addresses into the whitelist one at a time.  When you click the checkboxes in the addressbook, there'd be a new feature called "Add to whitelist."

2. Allow wildcards in the whitelist.  At the very least, allow specifying a domain without having to specify an entire address.  For those of us who receive online bills, we cannot know the exact address the bill will be sent from, but usually can be fairly confident of the domain.  Without allowing wildcards, I have to know each precise email address of all the companies that bill me, and, if they change that exact address, I won't receive my bill.

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5 years ago

Comcast email really doesn't have a traditional "whitelist".  However, you can accomplish the same thing by adding contacts to the address book,  see here-----------

Keeping Email out of the Spam folder

If you are referring to the "Safe List" found in the Advanced settings, that is not the same as a whitelist.  When you enable that, you will only get incoming emails from the addresses you put on the list.  Nothing else will get through.  To add a contact from an incoming email, click on the sender in the header and you will get a pop-up menu with the option to add the sender to the address book.

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@Latoque 

Thanks for the info.  My objective is sort of the opposite of the feature you describe:  I want everything blocked by default, with the items in the safe list (what I called the white list) allowed through.  It seems to work, but the interfaced is lousy, which is what I was complaining about.  Having to type in email addresses, one at a time, and not having any wildcards, is pretty un-helpful.

The good news is I haven't had any junkmail since this morning.

Thanks again.

Best,

Dave

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Hello, @DOCROC67. This is an awesome idea. I will definitely forward your feedback to see what we can do to add this as an option. Do you have anything else you would like to add? 

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