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How To The Whitelist LessonPlansPage.com Newsletter in your Spam Filter

With the advent of outrageous volumes of unwanted email these days, it's unfortunate that legitimate email publications like ours are not being seen by some of the readers who enjoy those publications. There is much fear today that the email publishing / marketing industry is in serious trouble, due to mistakes in filtering when legitimate email is erroneously tagged as unwanted email.

While we applaud the anti-spam industry for removing the plethora of unwanted email from many of our mailboxes, from time to time, some legitimate email publications are mistaken as unwanted. We'd like to help you make sure our mail gets to your Inbox instead of being misidentified as spam.

Sometimes, this results in our mailings bouncing back, with requests for us to respond to challenge/response messages to prevent future filtering. However, due to the size of our list, it's nearly impossible for us handle the volume of such requests.

If you currently use an anti-spam program or service, we ask that you take just a minute or two to add our publication to your "safe" or permitted email sender list. This usually involves simply adding our sending address (From:) to your whitelist, safelist, or list of priviledged senders. This is commonly known as whitelisting a publication.

Please refer to the following whitelisting instructions you can use to whitelist The LessonPlansPage.com Newsletter, depending on the filtering solution you use (if any of them ask for our sending email IP address, use these two - 209.59.172.50, 209.59.172.90). If you're asked to include the From email address, you may need to list all the addresses we included separately, and if you're asked to send to the email addresses we included, you may need to send to each email separately.


AOL

Go to keyword: Mail Controls. Select the screen name we're sending your LessonPlansPage.com Newsletter to. Click Customize Mail Controls For This Screen Name.

Version 9.0:

Open your latest LessonPlansPage.com Newsletter (or the "Welcome to our Newsletter") e-mail. Click the Add Address button (on the right) to add to your "People I Know" list.

Alternatively, you can just send an e-mail to: , , one at a time, and that will add us to your "People I Know" list automatically. To do this:

Open your latest LessonPlansPage.com Newsletter (or the "Welcome to our Newsletter") e-mail. Click the Reply button (it's in the top right corner). A new email window opens with the wrong address in the "Send To" box. Replace the address in the Send To box with: , , one at a time Click Send Now (in the top right corner). Even if the e-mail you send doesn't get through to us, the act of sending it does the job of putting us into your "People I Know" list.


CleanMyMailbox:

If The LessonPlansPage.com Newsletter (or the "Welcome to our Newsletter") is filtered, from the spambox, click on the white "W" icon on the left column of the mailing. When the pop-up window comes up, simply click the Add to Whitelist button.

Alternative whitelisting methods:

* Click on the White List button. Add: , , one at a time to the bottom of your existing list. Click the Submit List button.

* Click the Subject White List button. Add: [LPP] to the bottom of the list on a line by itself. Click the Submit List button.


Cloudmark SpamNet:

Select Cloudmark | Options... from the Cloudmark SpamNet toolbar in Outlook. Click Advanced. Go to the Whitelist tab. Click the Add button. Type: , , one at a time Click OK. Click OK. Click Yes. Click OK.


Gmail:

First of all, if our messages have been delivered to your Spam folder, select the message(s) and click Not Spam. Second, click on Contacts then Add Contact, type whatever you'd like for Name, and add these email addresses: , , one at a time, then click Save.


Hotmail:

Click the Options link, on the main menu tabs, then Safe List. Type: , , one at a time in your Safe List. If you see a message that should not be in your Junk Mail folder, click 'This is not Junk Mail' to avoid having e-mail from the same source sent to the Junk Mail folder in the future.


Mailblocks:

Click the Addresses tab. Click New. Type: , , one at a time Make sure 'Accept Mail From This Address' is selected under Receiving Options. Uncheck 'Display in People Picker' under Other options. Click Submit. Click OK.


MailShield:

Click Friends from the toolbar. Click Add. Type: , , one at a time Click OK.


MailWasher:

Click Tools, then Blacklist & Friends. Click Add... on the right, the Friends list side. Make sure Plain email address is selected. Type: , , one at a time Click OK. Click OK.


McAfee Spamkiller:

Click Friends from the sidebar. Click Add. Type: , , one at a time Click OK.


oddpost:

Check your 'Probably Spam' folder. If you see that The LessonPlansPage.com Newsletter (or the "Welcome to our Newsletter") was incorrectly filtered out, select it, and click the 'Move to Inbox and Mark as Not Spam' button.


SpamAssassin:

Add the following entry to your user_prefs file, which is found in the .spamassassin subdirectory on your web/mail server:

whitelist_from ,
whitelist_from ,
whitelist_from

Save the user_prefs file or move the updated copy to your .spamassassin subdirectory. If you have no user_prefs file in this subdirectory, create one: http://spamassassin.taint.org/doc/Mail_SpamAssassin_Conf.html http://www.cleanmymailbox.com/sa


SpamButcher:

Click the Configure button. Go to the Known Senders tab. Click Add under 'Known Good Senders and Recipients'. Type: , , one at a time Click OK. Click OK.


Spameater Pro:

Click Filters from the sidebar. Click the Approved Senders tab. Click Add Filter. Type: , , one at a time under Address. Choose 'Full Email Address' under Address Type. Select Email Domain. Click OK.


Spam Inspector:

Select Spam Inspector, then 'Manage Friends List' from either the Spam Inspector toolbar or from the Outlook menu. Make sure Email is selected under 'Add a New Friend'. Type: , , one at a time Click the >> button. Click Close.


Spam Interceptor:

Follow the Trusted link under > Authentication Lists. Enter the email address: , , one at a time Click Add.


SpamPal:

Click on the SpamPal system tray icon with the right mouse button. Click 'Add to Whitelist' from the menu. Type: , , one at a time Click Add.


Spam Sleuth:

Select File, then Configure. Go to the Friends category. Make sure Active is checked. Type: , , one at a time on a line by itself in the entry field. Click OK.


Yahoo! Mail

Open your Yahoo! mailbox. Click Mail Options. Click Filters. Click Add Filter. In the top row, labeled 'From header:' make sure Contains is selected in the pull-down menu. Click in the text box next to that pull-down menu, then enter the address: , , one at a time At the bottom, where it says "Move the Message To:" select Inbox from the pull-down menu. Click the Add Filter button again.

If The LessonPlansPage.com Newsletter (or the "Welcome to our Newsletter") has been filtered to your "bulk" folder, simply open the message and click on the "This is not Spam" link next to the "From" field.


Other providers:

If The LessonPlansPage.com Newsletter is being filtered, try adding , , one at a time to your Address Book or Contact list. If this option is not available, try moving the message to your 'inbox' or forwarding the message to yourself.

If subsequent messages continue to be filtered, call or e-mail your ISP's technical support and ask how you can be sure to receive all e-mail from , , one at a time.

Domain: If they need to know the domain we're mailing from, tell them: lessonplanspage.com and newsletter.lessonplanspage.com

IP Address: If they ask for our sending IP address, tell them: 209.59.172.50, 209.59.172.90