{"id":1722,"date":"2016-09-22T14:30:59","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T12:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.retarus.com\/blog\/fr\/whitelisting-your-own-company-not-a-great-idea"},"modified":"2024-05-07T19:37:46","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T17:37:46","slug":"whitelisting-your-own-company-not-a-great-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retarus.com\/blog\/fr\/whitelisting-your-own-company-not-a-great-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"Whitelisting your own company? Not a great idea."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">The whitelisting of email addresses is not meant to be used for the recipient\u2019s own email address &#8211; and for good reason. <\/span> <span lang=\"EN-US\">The aim and purpose of the exception list is to allow the delivery of messages that contain unconventional formulations, which cause them to regularly get stuck in spam filters even though the recipient would specifically like to read them. Employees at some of Retarus\u2019 E-Mail Security customers, however, add their own company\u2019s domain to the list of exceptions in their user configuration. In the erroneous belief, for instance, that they could otherwise not send news articles to the company email address using their own email address as the sender.<\/span> <div id=\"attachment_1725\" style=\"width: 1083px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.retarus.com\/blog\/fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2016\/09\/whitelisting_en.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1725\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1725\" src=\"https:\/\/www.retarus.com\/blog\/fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2016\/09\/whitelisting_en.png\" alt=\"Whitelisting the own domain is not advisable.\" width=\"1073\" height=\"633\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1725\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Whitelisting the own domain is not advisable.<\/p><\/div> <span lang=\"EN-US\">This can actually backfire quite badly. If a message pretends to be from a sender at the company in question and also happens to contain a malicious attachment which the virus scanner is not yet able to recognize as a virus and delete, then the message will be delivered straight to the user\u2019s inbox. &nbsp;&nbsp;Without the user having whitelisted the sender, there would be an excellent chance that such emails would be sent to quarantine by the spam filter, and that the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.retarus.com\/blog\/fr\/twice-scanned-is-a-whole-lot-safer\/\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">malware would be detected when it is later downloaded<\/span><\/a><span lang=\"EN-US\">. <\/span> <span lang=\"EN-US\">tl;dr You don\u2019t need a whitelist to communicate with yourself via email \ud83d\ude09<\/span> <span lang=\"EN-US\">You can find out more about Retarus E-Mail Security <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.retarus.com\/fr\/tech-products\/retarus-email-security\/\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">here<\/span><\/a><span lang=\"EN-US\"> or <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.retarus.com\/fr\/contact\/\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">directly from your local Retarus contact person<\/span><\/a><span lang=\"EN-US\">.<\/span> <span lang=\"EN-US\">P.S: Have you already seen our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.retarus.com\/blog\/fr\/infographic-six-facts-about-email\/\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Infographic: Six facts about email<\/span><\/a>?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The whitelisting of email addresses is not meant to be used for the recipient\u2019s own email address &#8211; and for good reason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":1726,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[44,102],"dipi_cpt_category":[],"class_list":["post-1722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-email","tag-email-security"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.4 (Yoast SEO v24.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Don&#039;t whitelist your own domain<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The whitelisting of email addresses is not meant to be used for the recipient\u2019s own email address - and for good reason.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.retarus.com\/blog\/fr\/whitelisting-your-own-company-not-a-great-idea\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fr_FR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Whitelisting your own company? 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