I try hard to write non-spammy email that gives you genuinely valuable content you want. Unfortunately, the robo-censors in your email software don’t always know what’s valuable to us humans!

So here’s how to whitelist my emails to ensure you get all the emails I send you:

How To Whitelist With Gmail

Sign in to your account at Gmail.com and do the following.

Add the address to your contacts

Add my email address (mike@mikeglenroy.com) to your Gmail Contacts. Google will usually deliver email from addresses that are in your Contacts.

Mark my email as ‘Not spam’

If Gmail has marked the emails I send as spam, tell Gmail the emails are not spam.

  1. In Gmail, navigate to the spam folder.
  2. Search for emails containing the domain “mikeglenroy.com”
  3. Select all the emails shown.
  4. Click More and then Not spam.

Create a filter for the address

Create a filter to tell Google to whitelist email from mikeglenroy.com.

  1. Click the cog icon in the top-right corner, and then Settings
  2. Click on Filters and then Create a new filter
  3. Either
    • enter the domain of the email you want to whitelist in the From field or
    • enter the email address of the online group you want to whitelist in the To field
  4. Click Create filter with this search
  5. In the box headed When a message arrives that matches this search select Never send it to spam
  6. Click the Create filter button

 

That’s it!

How To Whitelist With Outlook

For Outlook.com, Windows Live Mail, Hotmail and MSN Mail, sign in to your account at Outlook.com and do the following.

Add mikeglenroy.com to your contacts

Add the mikeglenroy.com to your Outlook.com Contacts. Outlook.com will usually deliver email from addresses that are in your Contacts.

Add the address to your safe senders

  1. Click the cog icon in the top-right corner and then More mail settings
  2. Select Safe and blocked senders and then Safe senders
  3. Add add the domain of the email you want to whitelist to the list of Safe senders
  4. Return to Safe and blocked senders and then select Safe mailing lists
  5. Add the email address of the online group you want to whitelist to the list of Safe mailing lists
How To Whitelist With Yahoo! Mail

How to whitelist an email address with Yahoo! Mail

Sign in to your account at Yahoo! Mail and do the following.

Add mikeglenroy.com to your contacts

Add the mikeglenroy.com to your Yahoo! Mail Contacts. Yahoo! will usually deliver email from addresses that are in your Contacts.

Create a filter for the address

  1. Mouse over the Settings menu icon and select Settings
  2. Click Filters and then Add
  3. Enter a Filter Name
  4. Enter the mikeglenroy.com domain in the Sender field.
  5. Select Inbox as the folder to deliver the email to
  6. Click Save and then click Save again