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This article tells you how to ensure you receive emails from us at House and Home Sitters, and see that these do not land in your junk or spam folder. Sometimes the spam blockers used by Internet Service Providers (ISPs), email software providers, and webmail applications may block email you actually want to receive. If you do not see an email from us in your Inbox, our email may have mistakenly been sent to your spam folder. Please search your spam folder and if you find an email from us, open it and mark it as “Not spam.”

Also add us to your trusted list of senders, contacts, or address book. This process is known as “whitelisting” and you will see instructions below for all the main email services.

If your email sender or spam filter is not listed, no matter what email system you use, simply find the most recent email you wish to whitelist, then add the address in the “From” line to your address book or contacts list.

If messages continue to land in your junk or spam folder, contact your ISP or spam filter support and ask how to whitelist the email. If you’re using some sort of spam filtering or blocking software yourself (apart from what your ISP provides), we also list below instructions on how to exclude your subscription from some of the more popular email ISPs.

AOL WebMail

  • Open the email.
  • Click on the sender’s name and email address.
  • Click Add to Address Book in the window that appears.
  • Enter any additional information.
  • Click Save.

AOL 8.0

  • Select Mail in the Menu on the top of the screen.
  • Select Mail Controls.
  • The Mail Control Screen would be displayed. Select Next.
  • Select Customize Mail Controls for this Screen Name and click Next.
  • You can select Allow email from all AOL members, email addresses and domains (allows all emails).
  • Select Next until the Save button shows up at the bottom.
  • Click Save.

AOL (version 9.0 or higher)

  • Copy the “from” address in the latest email.
  • In the pop-up box, select Add.
  • Paste the copied address/type the address required in the Other email field.
  • Make the newly added address the “Primary email address” by checking the checkbox.
  • Select Save.

AT&T / BellSouth

  • Open your mailbox.
  • Select Options on the top right hand side > Mail Options > Filters > Add Filter.
  • Select Filters.
  • Click Add Filter.
  • In the top row, labelled From Header, select “contains” from the pull down menu. Enter the address in the text box next to the pull down menu.
  • Move down to the bottom where there is the option Move the message to. Select Inbox from the drop-down menu.
  • Select the Add Filter button once again.

Comcast SmartZone

  • Click Address Book.
  • Click New and choose New Contact.
  • Add the email address and any additional information.
  • Click Save.

Cox.net Email

  • Go to WebMail Inbox window.
  • Click Preferences.
  • Under General Email Preferences, click Blocked Senders.
  • Type in the sender or domain you wish to allow in the Exceptions List.
  • Click Add.
  • Click Save.

EarthLink

  • Open the Address Book.
  • Click Add.
  • Enter your contact’s domain.
  • Click Save.

Entourage

  • Open the email.
  • Right-click the sender’s email address.
  • Select Add to Address Book in the short-cut menu.
  • Verify the sender’s contact details.
  • Click Save.

Gmail

To ensure you receive emails into your inbox, you can add the email address to your contact list. Or, if one of our mails has landed in your spam folder, you can mark it “Not Spam” to whitelist it.

  • Select Contacts from the options on the left side of the Gmail Inbox.
  • Select Create Contact on the top menu.
  • Enter the email address in the primary email box.
  • Select Save.

MacMail

  • Open the email.
  • Ctrl-click the sender’s email address and select Open in Address Book.
  • Verify the sender’s contact details.
  • Click Save.

McAfee SpamKiller

  • Click Friends.
  • Click Add.
  • Enter your contact’s domain.
  • Click OK.

MSN

  • Select Settings: Email | Junk e-mail (bottom left, just above Calendar).
  • From the E-mail settings screen, select Junk E-mail Guard.
  • Select Safe List.
  • Enter the email address.
  • Select Add.

Mozilla Thunderbird

  • Check if your contact’s email is in your Junk folder, right-click on the email and choose “Mark As Not Junk”.
  • Click Address Book.
  • Make sure that the Personal Address Book is highlighted.
  • Click New Card, the New Card window will display.
  • Under the Contact tab, copy your contact’s “From” address and paste it into the Email dialog box.
  • Click OK.

Norton AntiSpam

AntiSpam works along with Outlook, Outlook Express, Netscape and Yahoo, MSN/Hotmail to block spam mail before it reaches your inbox. To make sure emails reach you, you can add us to your Personal Friends list. Here is how:

  • Start Norton AntiSpam, select Status & Settings tab.
  • Select AntiSpam.
  • Select Configure button – right hand side bottom of the screen.
  • Select Allowed List tab – second tab on the list of tabs.
  • Select Add.
  • Enter email address in the Email address box.
  • Select OK.

Outlook Explorer

For 2003, 2007 and Express – without a sample email address in your inbox:

  • Select Actions from the toolbar at the top of the screen.
  • Select Junk E-mail.
  • Select Junk E-mail Options.
  • Click the Safe Sender tab.
  • Click Add.
  • Type in the email address you wish to add to your safe sender list.
  • Click OK.

For 2003, 2007 and Express – with a sample email address in your inbox:

  • Open the email.
  • In the Toolbar options at the top, click the Safe Lists drop-down.
  • Note: This is located in the “Junk Email” section
  • Select Add sender to Address book.

  • Click OK.

For 2003, 2007 and Express – to whitelist a website domain:

  • Open the email.
  • In the Toolbar options at the top, click the Safe Lists drop-down.
  • Note: This is located in the “Junk Email” section
  • Select Add Sender’s Domain (example.com) to Safe Senders List.
  • Click OK.

For 2010

  • In Outlook, go to the Home tab.
  • Click the Junk button.
  • Choose Junk E-Mail Options from the drop-down list.
  • Go to the Safe Senders tab.
  • Type in either the email address or the domain name you wish to add.
  • Click OK.

For 2013

  • In Outlook, go to the Home tab.
  • Click Junk > Junk Email Options.
  • Select the Safe Senders Tab and click Add.
  • In the “Add address or domain” box, enter the email address or the domain name you want to whitelist.
  • Click OK and close the window.

Express

In Outlook, go to the Tools menu.

  • Select Address Book.
  • Click New and select New Contact from the drop-down menu.
  • Type in email address and include any details you want.
  • Click OK.
  • Outlook.com (formerly Hotmail)
  • Open your Outlook mailbox.
  • Select Options from the top right (next to the question mark).
  • Select More options > Safe and blocked senders (under Preventing junk email) > Safe senders.
  • In the space provided, enter the address.
  • Select Add to list.
  • Ensure the safe mailing lists box has the address you entered, and select OK.

Road Runner

Adding an email address to the safe sender list will ensure future emails will be delivered to the inbox.

  • Open your Road Runner mailbox.
  • Open your Junk Mail folder.
  • Select the email that includes the e-mail address you would like to add as a safe sender.
  • Click Mark as Not Spam.

Spam Assassin

  • Find the spam assassin folder on your hard drive, and open it.
  • There would be a file named user_prefs. Open it with a text editor (such as Notepad).
  • If there is no such file, create it, instructions are available at this website.
  • Make a new line in the file. On that line, enter whitelist_from spamassassin followed by the address that you wish to whitelist. To whitelist the domain, enter the website domain.
  • Save and close the file.

Verizon

  • Open your Inbox.
  • Click Options.
  • Click Block Senders.
  • Locate the “Safe List.”
  • Enter your contact’s domain.
  • Click OK.

Windstream

  • Click the Settings tab.
  • Click Messages.
  • Click Allow and Block Messages.
  • Select Advanced Block Senders.
  • In the “Allowed Senders and Domains” area type the senders and domains you want to allow.
  • Click OK.

Yahoo

In Yahoo Mail, your Contacts list is your whitelist. To add the From Address to your Yahoo Contacts:

  • Open your Yahoo mailbox.
  • Click the address book icon under the Yahoo! Mail logo. When you roll your mouse over it, it will say Contacts.
  • Click New Contact.
  • Fill in the fields of your Contact.
  • Click Save.

Please contact us on info@houseandhomesitters.co.uk if you need any help.

July 2022

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