Add an email address to your Email white list or safe sender list

When you add a sender’s email address to your contacts, it tells Aol you want to receive email from that sender. This method does not guarantee messages from the desired sender won’t be sent to spam, but it’s an easy way to make it more likely the desired email will arrive in your inbox.

1. From Aol Mail, select Contacts
   
2. Select the New Contact icon
   
3. Enter the contact’s information, especially the email address of the sender in the Email 1 field
   
4. Select Add Contact
   

Unmark email as spam

If a desired email message makes it to your spam folder, you can remove it from Spam and send a signal to Aol that you want to receive that type of email in your inbox in the future. This method doesn’t guarantee messages from that sender won’t end up in spam in the future, but it is an easy way to move the email to your inbox and train Aol at the same time.

1. Go to Aol Mail on your computer’s web browser
   
2. Select the Spam folder
   
3. Open the desired email
   
4. Select the Not Spam (OK) iconat the top of the page
   
   The email will return to your Inbox.
   

To prevent desired email messages from being sent to the spam folder, you can select the This is NOT Spam button when viewing the email message or you can add the email sender to your address book.

Mark email message as NOT spam

The EarthLink webemail SpamBlocker works on a reputation-based system. When you use the This is NOT Spam and the (This is) Spam buttons in Web Mail to report spam, it raises or lowers the sender’s reputation in spamBlocker. If a legitimate email is coming from a known spam source, you many need to go through this process several times to build up enough of a reputation to override the others who have said this message is coming from a known spam source.

1. Go to EarthLink webmail and login with your email address and password
   
2. Click on the Known Spam link on the left of the page under spamBlocker
   
3. Tap the box to place a check mark next to the message you want to mark as “not spam”
   
4. Select the This is NOT Spam button to move the message to your Inbox
   

Add sender to your address book

Unless you’ve modified your default spamBlocker settings, adding an email address to your EarthLink webmail address book will help prevent email messages from that sender being marked as spam.

1. Go to EarthLink webmail and login with your email address and password
   
2. Select Address Book
   
3. Select New Contact
   
4. Enter details for the contact including the sender email address
   
5. Select the Save button
   

Add an email address to your Email white list or safe sender list

When you add a sender’s email address to your contacts, it tells Google you want to receive email from that sender. This method does not guarantee messages from the desired sender won’t be sent to spam, but it’s an easy way to make it more likely the desired email will arrive in your inbox. For a more reliable method, see the instructions below for creating a filter.

On a computer (web site)

1. On your computer, go to contacts.google.com.
   
2. At the top left corner, select Create contact.
   
3. Enter the contact’s information, including the sender email address
   
4. Select Save in the bottom right corner
   

On an Android smartphone/tablet (mobile app)

1. On your Android phone or tablet, open the Contacts app
   
2. 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 email messages you’re whitelisting.
   
5. When you’re finished, tap Save
   

Create a filter rule to keep desired email out of spam

Gmail’s filters provide a lot of 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 can only be created and modified from the online web version of Gmail, so you’ll need to go to your computer to complete the following.

1. Open the Gmail website
   
2. In the search box at the top, select the Down arrow
   
3. In the From field, enter the sender email address
   
4. At the bottom of the search window, click Create filter
   
5. Select Never send it to Spam
   
6. Click Create filter
   

Mark an email as Not Spam

If a desired email message arrives in your spam folder, you can remove it from Spam 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 messages from that sender won’t end up in spam in the future, but it is an easy way to move the email to your inbox and train Gmail at the same time.

1. On your computer, open the Gmail website
   
2. On the left, select Spam.
   
   If you don’t see Spam, select More
   
3. Open the desired email message
   
4. At the top of the page, select Not spam
   
   The message will be moved to your inbox
   

To help keep important email messages out of your GoDaddy email spam folder, you can set up allowed senders which prevents messages from those senders from ever being marked as spam. You can also modify your spam filter settings to have suspected messages delivered to your inbox with a “SPAM” label (instead of going to your spam folder) or to turn off spam filtering altogether.

Set up allowed sender

When you add a sender’s email address to your “Allowed List”, it tells GoDaddy webmail to never mark messages from that sender as spam.

1. Log in to GoDaddy Workspace Webmail
   
2. From the Settings menu, select Message Filters
   
3. Select Allowed List
   
4. Click Add New, enter the sender email address and then OK when you are finished
   

Modify spam filters

You can modify your spam filter settings to change how your account manages messages it suspects are spam.

1. Log in to GoDaddy Workspace Webmail
   
2. From the Settings menu, select Spam Settings
   
3. From the Spam filtering section, select one of the following:
   
   1. Turn off filtering – No action applies to suspected spam. It delivers to your Inbox.
      
   2. Mark subject with [SPAM] – Suspected spam delivers to your Inbox with [SPAM] in the subject line.
      
4. Select OK
   

Outlook.com is now the home for Hotmail, Live Mail, and other Microsoft email products. You can add an email address to your Contacts and the Safe Senders list to ensure you’ll always receive their messages in your inbox. Email addresses in the Safe Senders List are never treated as junk email. If a desired email ends up in your junk email folder, you can mark it as “not junk” to teach Outlook that you want to receive that type of email message in the future.

Safe Senders list

By default, email addresses in your Outlook contacts are considered safe senders by the Junk Email Filter, but you can change this setting. Email messages from safe senders are never moved to the Junk E-mail folder.

Add a sender to the Online (web) version of Outlook

To add people to your Safe Senders List, do the following:

1. Select the Settings icon (gear icon)
   
2. Select View all Outlook settings
   
3. Select Mail
   
4. Select Junk email
   
5. Enter the sender email address
   
6. Select Add > Save
   

Check blocked senders and safe senders list

1. Select Settings > View all Outlook settings
   
2. Select Mail, and then select Junk email
   
3. If you see the sender’s address listed under “Blocked senders and domains”, select the address and then select Remove > Save
   

Mark a message as “not junk”

In your Outlook.com folder list:

1. Select the Junk Email folder and look for the missing email
   
2. Right-click the desired email and then select Mark as not junk. The message will automatically be moved to your inbox.
   

To help keep important email messages out of your Yahoo email spam folder, you can add the sender email address to your Yahoo Contacts. If a desired email message is already in your spam folder, you can use an option to train the Yahoo spam filter to not send those messages to your spam folder. If you’re still not receiving email from a specific sender, you may want to check your Yahoo email blocked sender list.

Add a Yahoo Contact

When you add a sender’s email address to your contacts, it tells Yahoo you want to receive email from that sender. This method does not guarantee messages from the desired sender won’t be sent to spam, but it’s an easy way to make it more likely the desired email will arrive in your inbox.

1. From Yahoo Mail, select the Contacts icon
   
2. Select Add a new contact
   
3. Enter the sender’s information, especially the sender email address
   
4. Select Save
   

Unmark email as spam

If a desired email message makes it to your spam folder, you can remove it from Spam and send a signal to Yahoo that you want to receive that type of email in your inbox in the future. This method doesn’t guarantee messages from that sender won’t end up in spam in the future, but it is an easy way to move the email to your inbox and train Yahoo at the same time.

From a mobile browser

1. Go to Yahoo Mail in your mobile device’s web browser.
   
2. Tap the Sidebar menu icon
   
3. Tap the Spam folder
   
4. Select the desired email from the sender
   
5. Tap the Move icon
   
6. Tap Inbox
   

From a computer

1. Go to Yahoo Mail on your computer’s web browser
   
2. Select the Spam folder
   
   If you don’t see the “Spam” folder, select More below the “Sent” folder.
   
3. Open the desired email from the sender
   
4. Select Not Spam at the top of the page
   
   The email will return to your Inbox.
   

Unblock an email address

1. Select the Settings icon
   
2. Select More Settings
   
3. Select Security and Privacy
   
4. Hover over from an email address, then select the Delete icon
   

Note

Using Yahoo Mail filters does not prevent email from going to your spam folder. All email goes through the spam filter before going through other filters (source).