How to Whitelist Emails
A.Y.A. University wants to help make sure your emails are getting delivered to you! In order to help ensure proper delivery of emails to your inbox, you can add senders of legitimate emails to your Whitelist, also called the Approved or Safe Sender list. Scroll below to view instructions on how to whitelist emails for several popular Internet Service Providers and email companies.
*Note that we are not an email client like Gmail or Outlook. We send emails for learning through our platform. This guide is designed to help you keep emails from being moved to the spam folder.
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] to contacts list to finish.
Mac Mail
1. Click Address Book.
2. Click File.
3. Click New Card.
4. Enter [email] and additional information if you wish.
5. Click Edit 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] and additional information if you wish.
7. Click OK 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] to finish.
AOL Mail
1. Click Contacts in the right toolbar.
2. Click Add Contact.
3. Enter [email] 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] you want to whitelist.
6. Click Add.
7. Click Update to finish.
Apple Mail
1. Click [email] in the header of the message you’re viewing.
2. Click Add to finish.
Earthlink
1. Click Address Book.
2. Click Add Contact.
4. Save WhatCounts as a contact.
5. Click save.
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].
3. On the Add Contact popup, add additional information if needed.
4. Click Save 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] and additional information if you wish.
5. Click OK to finish.
NetZero
1. Click the Address Book tab on the top menu bar.
2. Click Contacts.
3. Click Add Contact.
4. Enter [email] and additional information if you wish.
5. Click Save 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] and additional information if you wish.
5. Click OK to finish
