Whitelisting Instructions:

Choose your email service or client from this list. Following the instructions will prevent you from missing my emails!

Apple Mail / OSX Whitelist:

  1. First, if my email shows up in your junk folder, highlight or open it and click “Not Junk” at the top of your screen.
  2. Go to “Mail” > “Preferences”
  3. Go to “Mail” > “Preferences” Go to the Rules tab
  4. Select Add Rule
  5. Give this rule a name such as “Email from Laura K. Curtis”
  6. Create a rule that says “If any of the following conditions are met: ‘From’ ‘Contains’” and then paste in “laura@laurakcurtis”
  7. From the actions, select ‘Move message’ to mailbox ‘Inbox’.
  8. Click “OK”

AOL.com Webmail Whitelist:

You must add laura@laurakcurtis.com to your AOL address book as follows:

  1. Search for email from us in the Spam folder. If you find an email in the Spam folder, then open it and click the “Not Spam” button.
  2. Click the Contacts link (or open your AOL Address Book)
  3. Click the +New button.
  4. In the  New Contact window, laura@laurakcurtis.com into the ‘Primary E-Mail 1’ field

AOL Email Client Whitelist:

New Subscribers: add laura@laurakcurtis.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. Once loaded, add laura@laurakcurtis.com to the Primary E-Mail field.
  5. Click the Save button.

GMail Whitelist:

  1. First, if you find email from me in your Gmail spam folder, select our email and click the “Not Spam” button
  2. Next, open an email that you have received from us
  3. Click on the little down-pointing-triangle-arrow next to “Reply”:
  4. Click “Add laura@laurakcurtis.com to Contacts list”

Hotmail Whitelist:

You need to add me to your “Safe List” 

  1. First, if you find email from me in your Hotmail junk folder, open the email and click “Not Junk”
  2. Next, check to see if I’ve been dumped into your “Blocked Senders” list. If so, select it and click on the “Remove” button.
  3. Next, open your mailbox and click “Options” in the upper right hand corner
  4. At the top of the page, click on the “Junk E-mail Protection” link
  5. Next, click on “Safe List”, which is down near the bottom
  6. Copy and paste laura@laurakcurtis.com where it says “Type an address or domain”
  7. Click the “Add” button
  8. Repeat steps 6. and 7. for info@icfiles.com or user@cpass.us 

Microsoft Outlook Whitelist:

  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. Add laura@laurakcurtis.com where it says “Add address”.
  5. Click OK

Yahoo!/SBC Gobal/ATT.net Mail Whitelist:

You will need to set up a “filter”, but first:

  1. If you find email from me in your “Yahoo! bulk” folder, open the email and click “Not Spam”.
  2. If you find mail from me in your “Blocked Addresses” list in “Settings”, select the email and click “Remove Block”.

Now to create the filter:

  1. Open Yahoo! Mail and click on the Gear and select “Settings” in the upper right hand corner or “…More” icon in the Nav bar.
  2. Select “Filters” (in the bottom left corner), or select “Filter Emails Like This…”
  3. On the Filters page, click “Add”
  4. Select the “From header:” rule, and add “contains” and add “laura@laurakcurtis.com”.
  5. Click the “Choose Folder” pull down menu and select “Inbox”.
  6. Pick the Add Filter button or “Save”

Still need help? Feel free to email me and I’ll do my best to walk you through it!