Whitelist Email


How To Whitelist Our Email Address To Ensure Activation Of Your Account

In this day and age of the internet and speed at which everything changes the last thing you want is to miss an important email.  Therefore it is worth whitelisting the email address before you receive it to ensure an over zealous spam filter program doesn't block it or worse send it to a "black hole" so you never even see it.

Most email providers these days will automatically block a senders email address sent for the first time to your email address unless you whitelist them before hand.

Spam management programs usually work very well blocking legitimate spam and allowing good email to get through.  However, artificial intelligence isn't an exact science and mistakes occur.

Whitelisting is a way of mitigating these mistakes so you never miss an important message sent to your inbox.

Even so after whitelisting the senders email address you may have to check the spam folder and classify it as "Not Spam" for some email providers like gmail, hotmail and yahoo.

Below we'll show you how to whitelist our email address (webmaster at nootkasoundclassifieds dot com) in the most common email providers.

Table of Contents

Gmail
Hotmail
Outlook
Yahoo

Gmail

Googles gmail program is the most aggressive when it comes to blocking a first time senders email address. They like to also hide you spam folder at the bottom of the left side menu so you have to work a little to find it.  However, you can highlight it and drag it up closer to the top so you can see it.

To whitelist first time email sender in gmail click on the gear icon in the top right corner after logging into your account.

gmail whitelist configuration

After that choose the "See all settings" link.

gmail whitelist configuration

Then choose the "Filters and Blocked Addresses" link.

gmail whitelist configuration

Scroll down and choose the "Create a new filter" link.

gmail whitelist configuration

Add the email you want to whitelist and click the "Create filter" button.

gmail whitelist configuration

Next choose the "Never send it to Spam" check box and click the "Create filter" button.

gmail whitelist configuration

That's it now your email address should appear in your filters list.

 

Hotmail

Hotmail also likes to block first time senders email addresses.

Login to your hotmail account and you'll have two options to whitelist email addresses. The first is a little quicker than the manual method.

1. Look for the "Junk Email" link to your left and click on it.

hotmail whitelist configuration

Then open the junk email message.

hotmail whitelist configuration

You will see two options to whitelist the email address, click either one to open another confirmation window.

hotmail whitelist configuration

In the next window make sure the "Never send messages from "email address" to the junk folder" box is checked and click the "Okay" button.  That is it you're all done.

hotmail whitelist configuration

 

2. The next option is a manual one by clicking the settings gear icon in the top right after logging in.

hotmail whitelist configuration

Near the bottom click on the "View all Outlook settings" link.

hotmail whitelist configuration

In the menu on the left click the "Junk Email" link.

hotmail whitelist configuration

In the "Safe senders and domains" list click the "Add" link and put your email address in the text field provided. Now just exit out of the window and your all done.

hotmail whitelist configuration

 

Outlook

The version of outlook that is installed on your computer can be configured to whitelist a first time senders email address in a few steps.

 These screenshots were taken from Microsoft's Office Version 10.

Configuration Steps

Open outlook and click the home tab to ensure it is visible.

Than click the Junk dropdown menu and choose "Junk E-mail Options".

outlook email whitelist configuration

 

A new window should open with the Option tabs provided.

Choose the "Safe Senders" tab to view the options provided to whitelist email addresses.

outlook email whitelist configuration

 

Another window will open allowing you to add an email address to the "Safe Senders" list.

Click the "Add" button and another window will open to allow you to input the email address.

Click "Ok" after adding email address.

outlook email whitelist configuration

outlook email whitelist configuration

 

You will be sent back to the "Safe Senders" tab with your newly added email address(s).

Click "Apply" than "Ok" and you're good to go.  You should now be able to receive emails from your whitelist.

outlook email whitelist configuration

  

Yahoo Mail

Yahoo isn't quite as strict as the other email providers but you can never be too careful as they have been know to block email they classified as spam that wasn't. Usually if the sender has already sent you an email and it ends up in your inbox or spam folder you just have to hightlight the message and mark it as not spam.

If however, you want to whitelist an email address before it arrives to ensure it gets delivered than click on the settings gear icon in the top right after logging into your account.

yahoo whitelist configuration

After that click on the "More settings" link near the bottom.

yahoo whitelist configuration

Then you click on the "Filters" link in the left menu and click on the "Create new filter" link in the next window.  Than it is just a matter of filling out the pertinent information in the form to your right and clicking the "Save" button.  That's it you're all done.

yahoo whitelist configuration