How to white list in Gmail (updated for 2022) – Whitelist Guide

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1. introduction
2. add an email address to the gmail whitelist
3. add a gmail contact
   1. on a computer
   2. on a mobile device

   intro

   Email is an essential communication tool and almost everyone has an email address (or three), but its ubiquitous nature makes it a popular target for unsolicited marketing messages, also known as spam. To combat this, email providers use sophisticated filters that attempt to separate legitimate email (ham) from unwanted messages (spam).

   Spam filtering is a great tool used by email providers to help manage the endless stream of spam emails being sent every day. Often this process happens quietly behind the scenes, but the process can become very apparent when you don’t get a message you need. No matter how good spam filters are, mistakes can still be made.

   To keep your inbox clean of spam and to help protect you from malicious messages, gmail has several methods to combat spam. If you don’t receive email from certain senders, you’ll want to first check your spam folder for those messages and mark them as “not spam” if you find them there. After that, you can add a sender’s email address to your gmail contacts and create a filter rule that will act as your email whitelist.

   add an email address to your gmail whitelist or safe senders list

   To keep important email messages out of your gmail spam folder, you can add the sender’s email address to your google contacts and/or create a filter rule to prevent messages from specific senders go to the spam folder. If a unwanted email message is already in your spam folder, you can use an option to train the gmail spam filter not to send those messages to your spam folder.

   add a gmail contact

   When you add a sender’s email address to your contacts, you’re telling Google that you want to receive email from that sender. this method doesn’t guarantee that messages from the intended sender won’t go to spam, but it’s an easy way to increase the likelihood that the intended email will reach your inbox. for a more reliable method, see the instructions below to create a filter.

   on a computer (website)

   1. on your computer, go to contacts.google.com
   2. in the upper left corner, select create contact
   3. enter the contact information, including the sender’s email address
   4. select save in the lower right corner

   on an android smartphone/tablet (mobile app)

   1. on your android phone or tablet, open the contacts
   2. app at the bottom right, tap add
   3. enter the contact’s name and email address
   4. make sure you save the contact to the correct account. next to your email account, tap the down arrow, and then select the account that will receive the emails you’re whitelisting.
   5. when finished, tap save

   create a filter rule to keep the desired email out of spam

   gmail filters provide many useful ways to manage your email and one of those ways is to set a rule to prevent email from a specific email address from going to your spam folder. filters are the closest thing gmail has to a “safe sender” or “whitelist”.

   filters can only be created and modified from the online web version of gmail, so you will need to go to your computer to complete the following.

   1. open the gmail website from your computer
   2. in the search box at the top, select the down arrow
   3. in the from field, enter the sender’s email address
   4. in bottom of the search window, click create filter
   5. select never spam
   6. click create filter

   mark an email as not spam

   If a unwanted email arrives in your spam folder, you can delete it and send a signal to gmail that you want to receive that type of email in your inbox in the future. this method doesn’t guarantee that messages from that sender won’t end up in spam in the future, but it’s an easy way to move email to your inbox and train gmail at the same time.

   1. on your computer, open the gmail website
   2. on the left, select spamif you don’t see spam, select more then search for spam
   3. open the desired email message
   4. at the top of the page, select not spam the message will be moved to your inbox

   for more help

   receptionif you need more help receiving emails as a gmail user, please visit their support site.

   sendingif you are an email sender and are having trouble sending emails to gmail recipients, please visit the gmail administrator tools website .

   did this guide work for you?

   Let us know if this guide to gmail worked for you by leaving a comment below. We strive to keep our guides up to date and relevant, but sometimes things change without notice. If you find something different in your gmail account from this guide, please let us know what you had to do differently. Thanks for your help and input!

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