How to Whitelist Landlord Law emails in your email program.
The problem of spam
The problem of spamThe problem of spam in the world gets worse and worse and it is using up huge internet resources and raising the cost for everyone.
To help counter this, the email companies are introducing new rules to counter spam. One of these is that people who continue to send emails to recipients who have not ‘engaged’ with any of their mailings for some time will be penalised.
‘Engaging’ means basically opening emails and/or clicking a link in them.
So we are contacting people on our mailing list who have not ‘engaged’ for three or months, about this.
But what if you are not getting our emails anyway? What if they are just going into your spam folder?
There are two ways to deal with this.
- ‘Whitelist’ our emails so they don’t go to your spam folder, or
- Get unsubscribed from our mailings so they don’t get sent out to you.
If you don’t want to get our mailings, it is best that you are unsubscribed so they don’t get sent out to you in the first place (thus reducing unnecessary mailings in the system). You can do this by clicking the ‘unsubscribe’ button at the bottom of all our mailings. Or ask us to do it for you.
However if you DO want to receive our mailings what do you do? How do you ‘whitelist’ an email?
How to whitelist an email address
They way to do this will depend on the email program you use to get your emails. So take a look at the various options below.
Gmail
Outlook
Yahoo
AOL
Apple Mail
Windows 365
If you use a different email program you would like us to add here, let us know via our Green Button messenger service (see the green button bottom right on this page).
Note that I do not include pictures in all sections as I don’t have access to all types of email account. However all systems work in a similar way so hopefully you will be able to work it out from the instructions.
Whitelisting an email in Gmail
Whitelisting an email in Gmail1. Click the ‘gear’ icon towards the top right of the screen
2. The click the ‘see all settings’ button that will appear below
3. Then select ‘filters and blocked addresses’ in the list at the top.
This is where you give gmail specific instructions on how to deal with different types of email which will override the standard settings.
4. First scroll down the list of items to see if there is already something for landlordlaw.co.uk, in which case you should click the edit link on the right.
Otherwise, at the bottom, click the ‘Create a new filter’ link.
5. This will bring up a box which you should complete as follows with [email protected] and then click the ‘create filter’ link.
6. This will bring up the create filter box. This will also happen if you click ‘edit’ for an existing filter so you can change it.
The main thing is that you tick the ‘never send it to spam’ box.
However you could also:
- Star it, if you want our emails to appear in your star section, or
- Always mark it as important, or
- Apply a Landlord Law label if you want to be able to find all the Landlord Law mailings. You can create a new label if you click the ‘choose label’ link.
And then click the ‘create filter’ button.
And that’s it!
If you added a label, note that you will find all the labels on the left of the screen. If you hover your mouse over the label and click the three little dots on the right, a box will appear which will let you give the label a colour. This will then appear on the emails and allow you to identify them easier.
Whitelisting an email in Outlook
Whitelisting an email in Outlook1 Click the ‘gear’ icon at the top right of the screen (it looks the same as the gear icon in gmail)
2. Select Mail from the main menu and then ‘Junk mail’ from the sub menu.
3. Scroll down to ‘Senders’ and click the button to add a safe sender.
4. Put [email protected] in the box and click ‘save’ (or sometimes it may be an ‘OK’ button.
And that’s it!
Whitelisting an email in Yahoo
Whitelisting an email in Yahoo1 Click the ‘gear’ icon which as usual is at the top right of the screen (under the Home icon)
2. In the pop up box scroll down and click ‘more settings’
3. In the box that appears click ‘filters’ and then complete the form as shown below. Call the filter ‘Landlord Law’ and the rule will be if it contains [email protected]. Select to send all mail to ‘Inbox’ and then click save.
And thats it!
How to whitelist and email in AOL
How to whitelist and email in AOL1 Log into your AOL account
2. Open ‘contacts’ from the left navigation pane
3. Click the ‘new contact’ icon and add the email address ‘[email protected]’
4. Then click the Add Contact button.
And that’s it!
How to whitelist a contact in Apple Mail
How to whitelist a contact in Apple Mail1 Log into your applied mail account
2. Click ‘mail’ in the menu bar
3. Select ‘settings’
4. Click on the ‘rules’ tab along the top
5. Enter a description in the box – maybe ‘Whitelisting LandlordLaw’
6. Complete the form so that you are telling it that if ‘from’ contains ‘[email protected] the action to perform is to move the message to the inbox. Then click OK.
And that’s it!
How to whitelist a contact in Windows 365
1 Open up Windows 365
2. Go to ‘Tools’ and then select ‘Rules’ from the dropdown menu
3. Click on ‘New Rule’
4. Click on the ‘rules’ tab along the top, and then click ‘New Rule’ which is a button at the button of the pop up box
5. Give a name for your rule in the box – such as ‘Whitelisting LandlordLaw’
6. Complete the form so that you are telling it that if ‘from’ contains ‘[email protected] the action to perform is to move the message to the inbox. Then click Save.
And that’s it!
