Adding Email Addresses to Your Safe Sender List
About This Feature
Add to your safe senders list is a feature offered by most email providers, such as Gmail or Outlook. It enables you, the subscriber, to better ensure that your favorite emails reach your inbox. By taking this step, you are basically letting your email provider know that you want to receive emails from that particular email address. It also lets the provider know that the email is not spam and prevents them from placing the email in your spam folder.
How to Use This Feature
How you use this feature depends on your email provider. We’ve included instructions for the most popular services.
[+] Outlook (2000 & higher)
- Open the email in a separate window
- Click actions on the toolbar at the top of the email window
- Select “junk email” then "add senders domain to safe senders list.”
[+] AOL(8.0 & higher)
- Open email
- Click the icon that says “add address”
- Save the contact information
[+] Hotmail
- Open the email
- Click “save addresses” on the mail options toolbar
- Save the contact information
Alternative:
- Go to main menu, click options, then select mail.
- Locate the Junk email protection tool under mail
- Add the sender's complete domain, (@example.com) to your safe send list.
[+] Yahoo
- Open the email
- Click “add to address book” on the right hand side of the sender's name
Confirm and save
[+] Gmail
- Open the email
- Click the down arrow (more options) on the right hand side of the email header
- Click “add (sender’s name) to contacts list”
[+] MacMail
- Open the email
- Ctr click the sender's email address and select open in address book
- Confirm and save.
Best Uses
This feature is a great way to avoid having to sift through unsightly spam for those treasured newsletters that you signed up for.