Whitelisting is an essential step to ensure that important emails don’t end up in your spam folder. By adding senders to your whitelist, you indicate that you consider their messages safe. This is especially useful for emails you expect regularly and don’t want to miss.
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Prevents loss of important emails: By applying whitelisting, you minimize the risk of critical messages going unnoticed in your spam folder.
Optimizes communication: Ensuring reliable communication with specific senders is vital. Whitelisting allows you to prioritize messages from important sources.
Increases security: By only allowing messages from trusted senders, you reduce the likelihood of receiving harmful or unwanted emails.
Now that you understand what whitelisting is and why it’s important, let’s look at how to implement it for popular email services like Gmail and Outlook.
Open Gmail and log in.
Click the gear icon in the top right corner and select See all settings.
Go to the Filters and Blocked Addresses tab.
Click Create a new filter.
Enter the email address you want to whitelist in the From field.
Click Create filter.
Select Never send it to spam and click Create filter.
Open the app and find an email from the sender you want to whitelist.
Tap the sender’s email address.
Tap Add to contacts.
Tap Do not block.
Open Outlook and log in.
Go to the Home tab.
Click Junk and select Junk Email Options.
Go to the Safe Senders tab.
Add the email address you want to whitelist and click Add.
Click OK.
Open the app and find an email from the sender you want to whitelist.
Tap the sender’s email address.
Tap Add to safe senders.
