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How to "White-List" Home Sale News

Tips for white-listing in Outlook 2003, AOL, Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail and Mozilla Thunderbird.

Don't let Home Sale News get mistakenly caught in your spam filter.


Outlook 2003

Add john@homesalenews.com to your Safe Senders list:

  1. On the Tools menu, click Options.

  2. On the Preferences tab, click Junk E-mail.

  3. On the Safe Senders tab, click Add.

  4. In the Add address, put john@homesalenews.com

  5. Click OK.


AOL

New Subscribers

Add john@homesalenews.com to your AOL address book:

  1. Click the Mail menu and select Address Book.

  2. Wait for the "Address Book" window to pop up, then click the Add button.

  3. Wait for the "Address Card for New Contact" window to load.

  4. Paste john@homesalenews.com into the "Other E-Mail" field.

  5. Make our From address the "Primary E-Mail" address by checking the associated check box.

  6. Click the Save button.

Existing Subscribers

If our newsletter is in your AOL Spam Folder, please open the issue and then click the "This Is Not Spam" button. Next, please add john@homesalenews.com onto your Address Book as described above.


Yahoo

New Subscribers

Set up a filter to redirect the newsletters into your inbox:

  1. Open your mailbox and click on Mail Options (upper right hand corner).

  2. Select Filters (bottom left corner).

  3. Click the Add link on the Filters page.

  4. Update the "From header:" rule with the following 2 pieces of information: "contains" and john@homesalenews.com. (This tells Yahoo to identify our newsletter based on its From address.

  5. Click the Choose Folder pull down menu and select inbox.

  6. Pick the Add Filter button.

Existing Subscribers

If my newsletter is getting stuck in your Yahoo Bulk Folder, please open the issue and click the "Not Spam" button. Next, check to see if the newsletter's email address is in your "Blocked Addresses" list. If you see john@homesalenews.com on this list, select it and click the "Remove Block" button. Lastly, please set up a filter as outlined above.


Hotmail

New Subscribers

Add john@homesalenews.com to your Hotmail Safe List:

Open your mailbox and click “Options” (upper right hand corner).

  1. Click the “Junk E-Mail Protection” link (top of page).

  2. Select the “Safe List” link (2nd from bottom).

  3. Copy and paste john@homesalenews.com into the dialog box titled “Type an address or domain”.

  4. Click the “Add” button next to the dialog box.

Existing Subscribers

If my newsletter is in your Junk E-Mail Folder, open the issue and click the "Not Junk" button. Next, check to see if our email address is in your Blocked Senders list. If you see john@homesalenews.com on this list, select it and click the "Remove" button. Finally, if you have not done so, add john@homesalenews.com into your Safe List as outlined above.


Gmail

New Subscribers

Add john@homesalenews.com to your Gmail Contacts List:

  1. Click Contacts along the left side of any Gmail page.

  2. Click Add Contact.

  3. Copy and paste our From address, john@homesalenews.com into the primary email address dialog box.

  4. Click Save.

Existing Subscribers

How to check if our newsletter is in the "spam" folder:

  1. Click Spam along the left side of any Gmail page.

  2. Check mark the box next to our newsletter.

  3. Click Not Spam button along the top.


Mozilla Thunderbird

New Subscribers

Add john@homesalenews.com to your Thunderbird Address Book and configure your Junk Mail Controls to white list your address book.

  1. Click the Address Book button.

  2. Make sure the Personal Address Book is highlighted.

  3. Click the New Card button. This will launch a New Card window that has 3 tabs: Contact, Address & Other.

  4. Under the Contact tab, copy and paste our “From” address, john@homesalenews.com into the Email dialog box.

  5. Click OK.

White list your Personal Address Book:

  1. From the main drop down menu, select "Tools -< Junk Mail Controls..."

  2. This will launch the Junk Mail Controls window that has two tabs: Settings and Adaptive Filter

  3. Under the Settings tab, update the "White Lists" module by selecting Personal Address Book from the pull down menu and then check mark the box next to "Do not mark messages as junk mail".

  4. Click OK.

Existing Subscribers

Please check your Junk folder to see our newsletter have been mistakenly placed there. To prevent this from happening in the future, you need to mark our newsletter as not junk. Do this by right-clicking on our newsletter and choose "Mark -< As Not Junk".

 

CONTACT INFORMATION - Call me anytime! These tips will solve many... but not all... delivery problems.

John L. Wake, M.S. ABR
Publisher, Home Sale News
Realtor, HomeSmart Real Estate
10601 N Hayden Rd, Suite I-104
Scottsdale, AZ 85260
480-596-3851 direct
480-600-0947 cell
480-607-6471 fax
John@HomeSaleNews.com