Guide to white-listing emails

WHITELISTS

Many companies now use programs to block unwanted emails, but sometimes they block e-mails that in reality, you want to receive. A whitelist is a list of accepted items or persons in the set list of email addresses or domain names from which an e-mail blocking program will allow messages to be received.

WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT?

Unsolicited, unwanted advertising e-mail, commonly known as “spam”, has become a big problem. It’s reached such proportions that most email services and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have put some sort of blocking or filtering system in place or begun relying on self-proclaimed blacklists to tell the good guys from the bad.

Sell Your Service Ltd. applauds their intention to protect you from spam, but everyone agrees that the current systems for stopping spam are far from a perfect solution. They often block emails you’ve requested, but that fits somebody’s idea of spam. The more responsible anti-spam activists are working hard to cut down on these “false positives”, but in the meantime, you might unexpectedly find you’re not getting your subscription’s content…

As it happens, there’s something you can do to keep your subscription’s content from falling into the false positive trap. You can fight the blacklists with a “white list”.

WHITELIST US NOW SO OUR EMAILS AREN’T INTERRUPTED

Of course, every email system is different. Below are instructions for some of the more popular ones. If yours isn’t here, please get in touch with your ISP’s customer service folks for their instructions. (Forward the answer to us, and we might add it!) If you’re using some sort of spam filtering or blocking software yourself (in addition to what your ISP provides), we’ve also listed instructions on how to exempt your subscription from some of the more popular of those programs.

GOOGLE MAIL OR GMAIL

1. In your inbox, locate an email from stuart@creativesprout.co.uk (e.g. your welcome mail for the email you just received). 2. Drag this email to your inbox’s “primary” tab. 3. You’ll see that our emails will go to your primary folder in the future!

YAHOO MAIL

When opening an email message, a “+” symbol should display next to From: and the sender’s name. Select this and an “Add to contacts” pop-up should appear. Select “Save”:

MAC MAIL

Select “Mail” and “Preferences” from the top menu. In the “Preferences” window, click the “Rules” icon. Click the “Add Rule” button. In the “Rules” window, type a name for your rule in the “Description” field. Use the following settings: “If any of the following conditions are met: From Contains.” Type the sender’s email address in the text field beside “Contains.” Select “Move Message” and “Inbox” from the drop-down menus.Click “Ok” to save the rule.

OUTLOOK 2003 & LATER

Right-click on the message in your inbox. Select “Junk E-mail” from the menu. Click “Add Sender to Safe Senders List.” This email whitelist page are from Digital Marketer\’s Lab Email Marketing EP.