The WinLink whitelist was added a few years ago to help prevent spam from the internet. Incoming internet e-mail addresses (name@url.xxx) will be rejected by RMS Express if they are not in your whitelist. The whitelist has no effect on WinLink addresses (call signs).  All messages from a WinLink address will NOT be rejected.

Here are some notes:

Add an e-mail to your whitelist:

Send a WinLink e-mail to an address to have it added to your whitelist. Or, add it using the SYSTEM as described below.

Allow an internet e-mal to by-pass the whitelist:

If someone’s internet e-mail is not in your whitelist they can still send you a message by adding //WL2K R/ in the subject line of the e-mail. (this really works!)

Editing your whitelist:

Your whitelist can be edited by use of WinLink e-mails to the SYSTEM.

Using WinLink, send the following message To: SYSTEM with Subject: WHITELIST

In the message body, the following options are available:

  • LIST: – will return a list of all whitelist entries for the user.
  • ACCEPT: jblow@somewhere.com – will allow messages from jblow@somewhere.com to be accepted. You may send multiple lines, each containing one e-mail
    address.
  • REJECT: jblow@somewhere.com – will reject any messages from jblow@somewhere.com. You may send multiple lines, each containing one e-mail address.
  • DELETE: jblow@somewhere.com – will remove jblow@somewhere.com from the your Whitelist. You may send multiple lines, each containing one e-mail address
    per line.

You can have multiple entries in the e-mail for example:

TO: SYSTEM
Subject: WHITELIST
-------------------
Accept: Joe@somewhere.com
Accept: Bill@someplace.net
Delete: joan@overthere.com
Delete: steve@someplace.net
Reject: ed@thatplace.net
Reject: nogood.com
Accept: ARRL.net

Thanks to the Pinellas county ACS for some of this information

Turn Off the Whitelist:

NOTE: It looks like this feature has been removed…. you can not turn off the Whitelist filtering. The only workaround is using the //WL2K R/ option mentioned above.

You can disable your whitelist by sending an e-mail to SYSTEM with OPTIONS as the Subject and Whitelist: OFF in the message:

TO: SYSTEM
Subject: OPTIONS
-------------------
Whitelist: OFF

More to come???