Whitelist for Gmail

Question

Is there a way to tell Gmail "Only allow into my inbox emails from the following email addresses. Send the rest to the trash bin."? I know how to blacklist specific email addresses by making a rule such as "If the sender is from a specific email address, send it to the trash" but I can't make a rule for every email in existence except the ones I want to let through.

Answer 1

You can use the - operator. For ex. you can create a filter that says move all emails from:(-@abc.com) to trash. This will move all emails that are not from @abc.com domain to trash.

Answer 2

I don't believe this is possible as Google doesn't apply their filters in a certain order or have a built in option for this type of setup. That said I'm pretty happy with gmails junk filters...

Answer 3

Gmail has a spam filter...

• Follow the Settings link in Gmail
• Go to Filters
• Create a new filter
• Type the email addr under From:
• Type just the domain name to whitelist the entire domain
• Click next step
• Make sure the Never send it to Spam is checked
• Click Create Filter