Add the address to your contacts
Add the email address that you want to whitelist to your Gmail contacts by hovering over the sender’s name and click the “+” icon (see below):
Mark messages as ‘Not spam’
If Gmail has a newsletter as spam that you would like to go to your main inbox, you can tell Google to not mark a send as spam like this:
- Navigate to the Spam folder.
- Search for emails containing the domain you wish to whitelist (eg example.com).
- Select all the emails shown.
- Click More and then Not spam.
Create a filter for the address
This is the most complicated option but will be the most effective at ensuring you receive newsletters to your inbox:
- Click the gear icon in the top-right corner, and then See All Settings
- Click on Filters and then Create a new filter
- Enter the domain of the email you want to whitelist in the From field.
- Click Create filter with this search
- In the box headed When a message arrives that matches this search, select:
- Never send it to spam
- Categorize as Primary
- Click the “Create filter” button
Mac
- Select Mail → Preferences from the menu bar in the Mac Mail app.
- Click the Rules tab → Add Rule.
- Type a name in the Description field, such as “Whitelist: beehiiv,” to identify the rule we’re going to add.
- Make sure the criteria reads If any of the following conditions are met and that the From field is followed by Ends with.
- Enter the domain name you want to whitelist in the field next to the Ends with field.Add an @ sign before the domain name to make the filter specific. For example, to whitelist all mail from the beehiiv.com domain, type “@beehiiv.com” into the field.
- In the Perform the following actions section, set the three fields to Move Message, to the mailbox, and Inbox or a different target folder.
- To save this rule click the Ok button.
- Success! Now you’re ready to go.
- To save this rule click the Ok button.
- Success! Now you’re ready to go.
iOS Mail App
- Open the Mail App
- Select the relevant mailbox, then the Junk folder
- Select the email you want to move to the inbox
- Click the folder icon at the bottom of the screen
- Select the Inbox folder you want future messages to go to:
For Outlook.com, Windows Live Mail, Hotmail, and MSN Mail sign in to your account at Outlook.com and do the following:
Add the address to your contacts
Add the email address that is sending you an email (e.g. hello@example.com) to your Outlook.com Contacts:
Add the address to your safe senders
- Click the cog icon in the top-right corner and then More mail settings
- Select Safe and blocked senders and then Safe senders
- Add the domain of the email (eg example.com) you want to whitelist to the list of safe senders
- Click the cog icon in the top-right corner and then More mail settings
- Select Safe and blocked senders and then Safe senders
- Add the domain of the email (eg example.com) you want to whitelist to the list of safe senders
Sign in to your account at Yahoo! Mail and do the following:
Add the address to your contacts
Add the email address that is sending you an email (eg hello@example.com) to your Yahoo! Mail Contacts by clicking on the contacts icon:
And clicking Add a new contact:
Create a filter for the address
- Mouse over the Settings menu icon and select Settings
- Click Filters and then Add
- Enter a filter name
- Enter the domain of the email you want to whitelist in the Sender field, or
- Select Inbox as the folder to deliver the email to
- Click Save and then click Save again
