How to "White-List" Abiding Savior Emails
Unsolicited, unwanted advertising e-mail, commonly known as "spam",
has become a big problem. It's reached such proportions that most e-mail services
and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have put some sort of blocking or filtering
system in place or begun relying on self-proclaimed blacklists to tell the
good guys from the bad.
Abiding Savior applauds their intention to protect you from spam,
but everyone agrees that the current systems for stopping spam are far from
a perfect solution. They often block e-mail that you've requested, but that
fits somebody's idea of what spam looks like. The more responsible anti-spam
activists are working hard to cut down on these "false positives",
but in the mean time, you might unexpectedly find you're not getting your
Daily Devotions or Prayer Requests from Abiding Savior.
As it happens, there's something you can do to keep Abiding Savior email from falling into the false positive trap. You can fight
the blacklists with a "white-list".
Of course, every e-mail system is different. Below are instructions for
some of the more popular ones. If yours isn't here, please contact your ISP's
customer service representatives for their instructions. (Forward the answer
to us, and we might add it here!)
One vital thing you can do that helps no matter what e-mail system
you're using is this:
Add the address bmitchell@knowingthesavior.org to your address book. This
will tell the SPAM filters in your email program that bmitchell@knowingthesavior.org is someone you
truly wish to receive mail from, and those emails will not be deleted or filtered into your JUNK MAIL box.
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To find instructions for your e-mail provider or software click on the appropriate
option below:
Yahoo
Hotmail
AOL
Outlook
Outlook Express
Eudora
Netscape Mail
Others
Yahoo!
To ensure that your Abiding Savior email is delivered to your Yahoo Inbox
(not the Bulk Mail folder), you can instruct Yahoo to filter it to your Inbox.
Here's how:
- Open your Yahoo mailbox.
- Click Mail Options.
- Click Filters.
- Next, click Add Filter.
- In the top row, labeled From header:, make sure contains is selected
in the pull-down menu.
- Click in the text box next to that pull-down menu, then enter the address
bmitchell@knowingthesavior.org
- At the bottom, where it says Move the message to:, select Inbox from
the pull-down menu.
- Click the Add Filter button again.
Hotmail
If you are using Hotmail, you can ensure that your Abiding Savior email is delivered to your Inbox by adding our "From"
address to your Safe List. Here's how:
- Click the Options tab.
- Select Safe List. (It's under the heading Mail Handling.)
- In the space provided, enter the address bmitchell@knowingthesavior.org. Click Add.
- When you see the address you entered in the Safe List box, click OK.
AOL
If you're using AOL, you can ensure that your Abiding Savior email is delivered to your Inbox by setting your Mail Controls. Here's
how:
- Go to Keyword Mail Controls.
- Select the screen name we're sending your Parler Paris E-Letter to.
- Click Customize Mail Controls For This Screen Name.
- For AOL version 7.0: In the section for "exclusion and inclusion
parameters", include this domain:
- For AOL version 8.0: Select Allow email from all AOL members, email addresses
and domains.
- Click Next until the Save button shows up at the bottom.
- Click Save.
Others
Many popular e-mail programs, including Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora,
and Netscape Mail, don't provide a convenient way for you to white-list the
folks you want to receive e-mail from. If you're using this sort of e-mail
system and you either aren't getting Abiding Savior email
or want to make sure you continue to receive Abiding Savior email in the future, you can do something about it.
Contact the customer service representatives or the Postmaster at the company
that provides your e-mail or Internet connection (your ISP). Explain to them
that Abiding Savior email is email that you asked
for and value. Ask them if they can white-list bmitchell@knowingthesavior.org. They'll probably ask you for
some information about us. Here's what to tell them:
- Sending Address: If they ask for our address, give them the address bmitchell@knowingthesavior.org.
- Domain: If they need to know the domain we're mailing from, tell them it's this:
- IP Address: If they ask for our sending IP address, tell them it's this:
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