How do i insure any address ending in ".gov" are safe senders?

[Abie Ross]

I want to insure that any email I receive from a ".gov" is considered a safe
sender and goes direct to my in box.
The problem: Many government email addresses may have multiple extensions
before the ".gov" ending but after the "@"
Examples: @od.nih.gov
Will " *.*.gov" work - or is there a better/smarter way to do this?
Right now I have ".gov" as a safe sender extension . But it does not catch
addresses such as the example above.

Abie Ross

 

[Dave]

I feel your pain...

It is my understanding that with Outlook 2003, you can not add a wildcard as
part of the domain name to the safe sender list. For example, you can add:

@something.gov

But you can't add:

@*.gov
@*.something.gov

You have to add each child domain of .gov, so your safe sender list would be
something like:

@something.gov
@helpdesk.something.gov
@bigdog.gov

That might be different in Outlook 2007. I thought I read somewhere that
wildcards in the safe sender list would work. Can anyone verify that and
provide a link?

Dave