Choose your email client:
- AOL Webmail
- Hotmail
- Google Mail (Gmail)
- Thunderbird
- Windows Live Mail
- Yahoo! Mail (Old)
- Yahoo! Mail (New)
Make sure you choose to receive mail from all senders.
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Click Settings at the top of the page.
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Select Spam Controls.
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Under ‘Additional Spam Filters’, click the ‘Control From Whom I Get Email’ button.
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A new window appears. Choose the first option listed ‘Allow mail from all senders’.
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Click Save.
Add your senders to your Safe List:
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Click Options on the right side.
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Choose Mail.
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Click ‘Junk Email Protection’.
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Click ‘Safe List.
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Type your contact’s email address into the text field and click Add.
Make sure the people you wish to receive mail from are included in your Contacts list.
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Click Contacts on the left.
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Click Create Contact.
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Enter the name and email address of the person and click Save.
Add your contacts to your address book:
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Go to Tools > Junk Mail Controls.
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Click File > New…
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Enter your contact’s name and email address.
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Click OK.
Add your senders to your Allowed List:
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Click Options on the right side.
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Click More Options from the drop-down list.
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Choose ‘Allowed and Blocked Senders’.
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Click ‘Allowed Senders’.
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Type sender’s email address into the text box and click ‘Add to List’.
Create a filter to send all incoming messages to your inbox:
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Click Options on the right side.
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Click Filters on the right side.
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Click Add.
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Beside the ‘from contains’ line, enter the contact’s email address and click ‘Add’.
Create a filter to send incoming mail to your inbox:
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Click Options at the top right.
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Click More Options from the drop-down list.
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You will be redirected to the Yahoo Classic interface. Follow the instructions in Yahoo! Mail (Classic) above.
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