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Not Receiving Our Emails? Whitelist Us.

Automated system emails often end up accidentally being sent to the spam folder in your email, or being filtered and not arriving at all. To avoid this, “whitelisting” the sender's domain and/or email address will prevent this from happening.

To whitelist an email address just means you add them to your approved senders list. This tells your email client/program that you know this sender and trust them, which will keep emails from being filtered on going into the junk/spam folder.

But this is different for each different email program and service. Below is some guidance, but with there being so many email programs and versions these steps may not be exact, but should point you in the right direction. Googling "how to whitelist an email in yahoo 2020", "how to whitelist an email in att 2020", "how to whitelist an email in office 365 2020", etc, will help find instructions for your specific program and version.

Howdy Health Email Whitelisting

The solution is to tell your email program (Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook, ATT, etc.) that mail from howdyhealth.org is not spam. To do this, you will add the howdyhealth.org domain to your email program's "whitelist".

Whitelist Emails

If your email program requires whitelistng specific emails, please add these emails:

Always Whitelist Important Emails In Your Spam/Junk Mail Folder

If you find an important email in your spam folder that is not spam always take a moment to mark it as “not spam” or “not junk”, this automatically let’s your email program add the sender to the whitelist.

Whitelisting Instructions

• Gmail
• Yahoo
• Hotmail
• AOL
• Outlook
• MacMail
• Verizon
• Comcast
• Cox.net
• Road Runner
• AT&T WebMail
• EarthLink
• Thunderbird
• MSN
• Mail.com

GMail

Log into your account and open up the email in your inbox. Hover over the sender's name and a window will pop up. Select "Add to Contacts" to save the sender to your Contacts list.

You can also whitelist in GMail before opening the email. To do so, hover over the sender's name next to the subject line in the inbox. Click "More" in the pop-up box. Select "Add to senders" to save to your Contacts list.

Yahoo!

Log into your account, hover over the "Settings" icon and click "Settings".

In the "Settings" tab, select "Filters" from the left menu and click the button to "Add" a filter.

Type a name for your filter in the "Filter name" field. Select "contains" in the "sender" drop-down menu. Type the sender's email address in the "sender" text field. In the "Move to Folder" drop-down menu, select "Inbox". Click the "Save" button in the top bar to save the filter.

Hotmail

In the upper right hand corner of your account, click on the "Settings" icon. From here, click on the option for "Options".

While in this section, click on the option for "Safe and blocked senders".

Click on "Safe senders".

Enter in the sender's email address and click the button to "Add to list".

AOL

In the upper right hand corner of your account, click on "Options". From there, click "Mail Settings".

On the "Settings" page, click "Spam Settings". From there, choose "Allow mail only from addresses I specify" on the drop-down menu. Enter in the sender's email address, click the plus button, and click save to save your changes.

Outlook 2003 (and higher)

Right-click on the message in your inbox. Select "Junk E-mail" from the menu. Then, click "Add Sender to Safe Senders List".

MacMail

Select "Mail" and "Preferences" from the top menu.

In the "Preferences" window, click the "Rules" icon. Then, click the "Add Rule" button.

In the "Rules" window, type a name for your rule in the "Description" field. Use the following settings: “If any of the following conditions are met: From Contains.” Type the sender’s email address in the text field beside “Contains.” Select “Move Message” and “Inbox” from the drop-down menus. Click “Ok” to save the rule.

Verizon

1. Open your email.
2. Click "Options".
3. Click "Block Senders".
4. Locate the "Safe List".
5. Enter your contact's domain.
6. Click "OK".

Comcast

1. Click "Address Book".
2. Click "New" and click "New Contact".
3. Add the sender's email address.
4. Click "Save".

Cox.net

1. Open your email.
2. Click "Preferences".
3. Under "General Email Preferences", click "Blocked Senders".
4. Type in the sender's email address in the "Exceptions List".
5. Click "Add".
6. Click "Save".

Road Runner

1. Click your "Junk Mail" folder.
2. Select the email that includes the email address you would like to add as a safe sender.
3. Click "Mark as Not Spam".

AT&T WebMail

1. Select "Options".
2. Select "Filters".
3. Click "Add Filter".
4. In the top row labeled From Header, select "contains" from the drop down menu.
5. Enter the sender's email address.
6. Move down to the bottom where there is the option "Move the message to". Select "Inbox" from the drop down menu.
7. Select the "Add Filter" button again.

EarthLink

1. Click "Add"
2. Enter your sender's domain i.e. example.com.
3. Click "Save".

Thunderbird

1. Check if your sender's email is in your "Junk" folder. Then, right click on the email and select "Mark As Not Junk".
2. Click "Address Book".
3. Make sure that the "Personal Address Book" is highlighted.
4. Click "New Card", the "New Card" window will display.
5. Under the "Contact" tab, copy your sender's "From" address and paste it into the email dialog box.
6. Click "Ok".

MSN

1. Select "Settings".
2. From the email settings screen, select "Junk E-mail Guard".
3. Select "Safe List".
4. Enter the sender's email address.
5. Select "Add".

Mail.com

1. Open the email.
2. Click the "Plus" symbol on the sender's email address.
3. Add the first/last name of the sender.
4. Click "Ok".

Whitelisting Email in Other Email Applications & Webmail Services

If you use a Web mail system or email application adding the “From” address to your “address book”, “safe list”, “whitelist” or “contact list” will usually work.

Also, check your “spam”, “bulk” or “junk” folder. If the email is there look for a way to indicate that it is not spam. For example by selecting the email and clicking a button such as “Not Spam” or “Not Junk”.

If you are still having trouble please submit a support ticket describing which email service or client (with software version number) you are using and any other relevant information and we will send the specific steps for your email program.