How To Whitelist an Email Address

For Fudoshin Karate, whitelist the email: info@fudoshinkarate.com

For good measure include: john@johnmclauchlan.com

Email is the most common way to communicate online, and the most common way to receive spam. In a quest to tackle spam, Google, Yahoo and all the popular email providers now have measures in place to prevent spam.

The result of these measures is a lot of emails you want, end up in your junk folder.

The process to receive the emails you want is called Whitelisting.

In this article, I’m going to show you how to whitelist emails in Gmail, Apple Mail, Yahoo Mail, Outlook and other common email providers.

How To Whitelist an Email in Gmail

Here are the easy steps to whitelist an email in Gmail.

Select the cog icon at the top right of the Gmail screen
Select ‘See all settings’ within the popup window that appears on the right
Select the Filters and Blocked Addresses tab
Select Create new filter and add the sender email address in the From section
Select Create filter and set it to Never send to Spam

How To Whitelist an Email in Yahoo Mail

Open Yahoo Mail and select Settings
Select Filters and Add
Name the filter and add the sender email address
Select to send all mail to Inbox
Select Save and Save

How To Whitelist an Email in Apple Mail

Open your mail app
Select the sender address you want to add to your whitelist
Select ‘Add to VIPs’ or ‘Add to Contacts’ depending on your device

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You can also check your spam folder and mark any emails from recognised senders as ‘Not Spam’. After doing this, those emails will go to your inbox.

How To Whitelist an Email in Desktop Outlook

Select a sender in your inbox
Right click the mail and select Junk
Select ‘Never block sender’

Conclusion

What you’ll find, is most email providers work in a similar way, the take away is, if you want to ensure the emails you want to read are delivered to your inbox and not into junk, whitelist