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"Gmail's spam filter is mighty; the Spam folder is usually always full of junk and nothing important. However, if you want to be absolutely sure that messages from your contacts never end up marked as spam, setting up a filter is simple and effective.
You can use Gmail's whitelisting feature to protect certain email addresses or even entire domains from going to spam.
Note: When you whitelist an email or domain in Gmail, it does not apply to past emails that are already in the Spam or Trash folder.
Whitelist a Sender or Domain in Gmail
There are a couple ways to go about whitelisting an email address or domain but we'll use the "official" (albeit longer) method first:
Go into your account's Filters and Blocked Addresses settings through the settings button on the right of your mail, then the Settings option.
Scroll down until you find the Create a new filter link. It's right above the section for blocking email addresses.
In that new window that pops up, type the email address you want to whitelist in the From field.
To whitelist a full email address in Gmail, type something like person@example.com, of course replacing the email account and domain name with the one that corresponds to what you want to whitelist.
To whitelist a domain in Gmail, just exclude the account, like @example.com. This will apply to any email address on the "example.com" domain.
Tip: If you're wanting to whitelist more than one email address or domain, you don't have to repeat this step for each one. Instead, put a break between the separate accounts, such as person@example.com|person2@anotherexample.com|@example2.com.
If you don't want to adjust any of the other options for a more specific filter, go ahead and click the link called Create filter with this search >>.
Place a check in the box next to Never send it to Spam.
Click Create a filter to save the changes.
The other option for setting up whitelist filters in Gmail is to open an email from the sender that you wish to always keep out of the Spam folder, and then:
With the conversation open, click the small down arrow to the right of the sender name and timestamp.
Choose Filter messages like this.
The email address will automatically populate in the filtering options. You can then continue through with the steps from above, at Step 4."
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MMT wants to help make sure your emails are getting delivered to you! To to help ensure successful delivery of emails to your inbox, you can add senders of NON-SPAM / desired emails to your Whitelist, also called the Approved or Safe Sender list. Click below to view instructions on how to do whitelist emails for a number of popular Internet Service Providers / Email Companies.
We do not use an email client like Gmail or Outlook for our Campaigns. Most popular Platforms we use do not allow it anyway. We use GetResponse as an Example This guide is designed to help you keep emails from being moved to the spam folder. Of course you want to get our Great Stuff!
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 | AOL Mail 1. Click Contacts in the right toolbar. 2. Click Add Contact. 3. Enter [Email Address] and additional information if you wish. 4. Click Add Contact button in the popup to finish. |
 | Comcast 1. Click Preferences from the menu. 2. Click Restrict Incoming Email. 3. Click Yes to Enable Email Controls. 4. Click Allow email from addresses listed below. 5. Enter [Email Address] you want to whitelist. 6. Click Add. 7. Click Update to finish. |
 | Earthlink 1. Click Address Book. 2. Click Add Contact. 4. Save WhatCounts as a contact. 5. Click save. |
 | Gmail 1. Open an email from the sender that you want to whitelist. 2. Click on the little down-pointing-triangle-arrow next to “reply.” 3. Click Add [Email Name] to contacts list to finish. |
 | Apple Mail 1. Click [Email Address] in the header of the message you’re viewing. 2. Click Add to finish. |
 | NetZero 1. Click the Address Book tab on the top menu bar. 2. Click Contacts. 3. Click Add Contact. 4. Enter [Email Address] and additional information if you wish. 5. Click Save to finish. |
 | Yahoo! Mail 1. Open the email message from the sender you want to add to your address book. 2. Click Add to contacts next to [Email Address]. 3. On the Add Contact popup, add additional information if needed. 4. Click Save to finish. |
 | Windows Live Hotmail 1. Open an email from the sender that you want to whitelist. 2. Click Add to contacts next to [Email Address] to finish. |
 | Microsoft Outlook 2003 1. Open the email message from the sender you want to add to your address book. 2. Right-click Click here to download images in the gray bar at the top of the message. 3. Click Add Sender to Senders Safe List to finish. |
 | Outlook 2007 1. Right-click on the email you received (in the list of emails). 2. Click Junk E-mail. 3. Click Add Sender to Safe Senders List to finish. |
 | Outlook 2010 1. Click the Home tab. 2. Click Junk. 3. Click Junk E-mail Options. 4. Click Safe Senders. 5. Click Add. 6. Enter [Email Address] and additional information if you wish. 7. Click OK to finish. |
 | Mac Mail 1. Click Address Book . 2. Click File. 3. Click New Card. 4. Enter [Email Address] and additional information if you wish. . 5. Click Edit to finish |
 | Mozilla Thunderbird for PC 1. Click Address Book. 2. Make sure Personal Address Book is highlighted. 3. Click New Card. This will launch a New Card window that has 3 tabs: Contact, Address & Other. 4. Under Contact, enter [Email Address] and additional information if you wish. 5. Click OK to finish. Mozilla Thunderbird for Mac 1. Click Address Book. 2. Make sure Personal Address Book is highlighted. 3. Click New Card. This will launch a New Card window that has 3 tabs: Contact, Address & Other. 4. Under Contact, enter [Email Address] and additional information if you wish. 5. Click OK to finish |