What is a whitelist?

A whitelist is a list of approved or safe email addresses. It helps your spam filter decide if an email should be allowed through or not. Having an email on a whitelist means those emails will definitely be delivered to your inbox rather than a spam folder.

To make sure you get emails from me, you can either add me to your whitelist or add my email to your contacts.

Jump to your email provider:

Gmail Instructions

  1. Select the gear icon in Gmail and select "See all settings" from the Quick settings menu.
  2. Navigate to "Filters and Blocked Addresses" in the top menu.
  3. Select "Create a new filter."
  4. Add a specific email or a whole domain in the "From" field.
  5. Select "Create filter."
  6. Check "Never send it to Spam" in the checkbox.
  7. Select "Create filter."

Outlook Instructions

  1. Select the gear icon in Outlook and select "View all Outlook settings."
  2. Select "Mail" from the settings menu.
  3. Choose "Junk email" from the submenu.
  4. Select "Add" under "Safe senders and domains."
  5. Enter the email address that you want whitelisted.
  6. Choose "Save."

Yahoo! Instructions

  1. Open Yahoo Mail and log into your account.
  2. Navigate to "Settings" then click "More Settings."
  3. Select "Filters" and hit "Add" to enter the email you'd like to whitelist.
  4. Name the filter and add the email address.
  5. Select to send all mail to "Inbox."
  6. Save your settings.