The Senders Tab controls how Spam Hound deals with email depending on who is sending it.

Approved Senders.

Spam Hound keeps a list of people that are whitelisted (pre-approved) to send you email.
If someone is whitelisted then email from them is always allowed through.

Edit List of Approved Senders...

Press this button to edit your list of whitelisted senders.
You can manually remove people from the list if you no longer want to receive mail from them or add people who are not yet in your address book.
Manually editing this list is not usually necessary since Spam Hound automatically updates the list any time you categorize an email as personal.

As with all lists, you can also specify wildcards in your list of Approved Senders.
This is useful if you want to receive mail from anyone in a particular company.
For example if you do a lot of business with MomsCookies.com you could whitelist *@MomsCookies.com to ensure that no mail from that company is accidentally mistaken for spam.

Banned Senders.

Spam Hound also keeps a list of blacklisted senders who you never want to receive mail from.
When you categorize and email as commercial spam Spam Hound automatically blacklists the sender.
This way if that sender sends you more spam in the future Spam Hound will know that you are not interested in reading it.
The Spam Hound will send mail from banned senders to the Doghouse, this will give you a chance to change your mind later.


Edit List of Banned Senders...

Press this button to edit your list of blacklisted senders.
You can manually add people from the list if you no longer want to receive mail from them or remove people who you have changed your mind about.
Manually editing this list is not usually necessary since Spam Hound automatically updates the list any time you categorize an email as spam.

As with all lists, you can also specify wildcards in your list of Banned Senders.
This is useful if you receive a lot of spam from a certain domain or company but from different people in that company.
For example you could blacklist *@FreeViagra.com if that company kept sending you spam.