To Keep Receiving our Emails Please Consider White-Listing The Winning Sage
Here is How you can Whitelist Us So You Don’t Miss a Single Email
Unsolicited, unwanted advertising e-mail, commonly known as spam has become a big problem. It’s reached such proportions that most e-mail services and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have put blocking and filtering systems to keep these messages out. The systems work but sometimes they work too well, blocking messages that you have elected to receive from reputable senders (like The Winning Sage!).
The format and language of our emails sometimes causes it to be filtered out as spam, even though we never send un-solicited email. In most cases the intended recipient of the email is not notified (and neither are we) that the message did not get through.
But there is something you can do… To keep our emails from falling into the false positive trap.
The solution is to *white-list us before your delivery is interrupted.*
Of course, every e-mail system is different. Below are instructions for some of the more popular ones. If yours isn’t here, please contact your ISP’s customer service department for their instructions.
One vital thing you can do that helps no matter what e-mail system you’re using is this: add the address in the *From line of your most recent message to your address book.*
This is the address: info@thewinningsage.com
To find instructions for your e-mail provider or software, use this handy menu:
To ensure that your lessons are delivered to your Yahoo Inbox (not the Bulk Mail folder), you can instruct Yahoo to filter it to your Inbox. Here’s how:
- Open your Yahoo mailbox.
- Click Mail Options.
- Click Filters.
- Next, 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 in the From line our email address.
- At the bottom, where it says Move the message to:, select Inbox from the pull-down menu.
- Click the Add Filter button again.
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If you are using Hotmail, you can ensure that your lessons are delivered to your Inbox by adding our From address to your Safe List. Here’s how:
- Click the Options tab.
- Select Safe and Blocked Senders. (It’s under the heading Junk E-mail.)
- In the space provided, enter the address in the From line our email address.
- Click Add.
- When you see the address you entered in the Safe List box, click OK.
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Step 1. Go to the Spam folder
Step 2. You can select multiple messages by checking the box in front of each message
Step 3. Then click the Not Spam button
To Add to Address Book:
Step 1. Starting from your Inbox, open the message from us
Step 2. While viewing the message, choose the pull-down triangle next to Reply
Step 3. Click on Add David to Contacts List
Step 1. Go to the Spam folder
Step 2. You can select multiple messages by checking the box in front of each message
Step 3. Then click the Not Spam button
To Add to Address Book:
Step 1. Locate the message in your inbox
Step 2. Right click on the message and choose Add to Contact.
If you’re using AOL, you can ensure that your lessons are delivered to your Inbox by setting your Mail Controls. Here’s how:
- Go to Keyword Mail Controls.
- Select the screen name we’re sending your lessons to.
- Click Customize Mail Controls For This Screen Name.
For AOL version 9.0: You need to add our sending address to your People I Know list.
Open the latest email you received from us.
Click the Add Address button (over on the right) to add our address to your People I Know list.
Alternatively, you can just send an e-mail to our email address, and that will add us to your People I Know list automatically.
Open your latest email you received from us.
Copy the address in the From line.
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 the one you copied out of the From line.
Click Send Now (it’s in the top right corner).
Even if the e-mail you send doesn’t get through to us (for whatever reason), the act of sending it does the job of putting The Winning Sage into your People I Know list‚Äìand that’s what counts.
For AOL version 7.0: In the section for exclusion and inclusion parameters, include both of these domains:
mindvalley.net
thewinningsage.com
For AOL version 8.0: Select Allow email from all AOL members, email addresses and domains.
- Click Next until the Save button shows up at the bottom.
- Click Save.
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Add a name to your Safe Senders or Safe Recipients List
You can add either the sender’s e-mail address or their domain name to the Safe Senders List.
- On the Tools menu, click Options.
- On the Preferences tab, under E-mail, click Junk E-mail.
- Click the Safe Senders or Safe Recipients tab.
- Click Add.
- In the Enter an e-mail address or Internet domain name to be added to the list box, enter the name or address you want added, and then click OK.
- Repeat steps 4 and 5 for each name or address that you want to add.
Notes
If you want your Contacts to be considered safe senders, select the Also trust e-mail from my Contacts check box on the Safe Senders tab. All e-mail addresses in your Contacts folder will then be used by the Junk E-mail Filter to evaluate messages.
If you want people who are not necessarily in your Contacts but are people you correspond with regularly to be considered safe senders, select the Automatically add people I e-mail to the Safe Senders List check box on the Safe Senders tab. By default, the check box is selected. This check box is introduced with Microsoft Office 2003 Service Pack 1. To get Service Pack 1, go to Downloads on Office Online. Under Office Update, click Check for Updates.
If Automatic Picture Download is turned off, messages from or to e-mail addresses or domain names on the Safe Senders and Safe Recipients Lists will be treated as exceptions and the blocked content will be downloaded.
If you have existing lists of safe names and addresses, you can import the information into Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 by saving the list into a text (.txt) file with one entry per line, and then importing the list.
To quickly add a sender, domain name, or mailing list name to the Safe Senders or Safe Recipients Lists, right-click the message you consider safe, and then on the shortcut menu, point to Junk E-mail, and then click Add Sender to Safe Senders List, Add Sender’s Domain (@example.com) to Safe Senders List, or Add Recipient to Safe Recipients List.
If you are using a Microsoft Exchange Server e-mail account, names and e-mail addresses in the Global Address List (Global Address List: The address book that contains all user, group, and distribution list e-mail addresses in your organization. The administrator creates and maintains this address book. It may also contain public folder e-mail addresses.) are automatically considered safe.
If you are using an Exchange Server e-mail account and working online, you must be using Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 or later. If you do not know what version of Exchange server your e-mail account is using, contact your Exchange administrator.
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Step 1. Click on the Junk Mail folder in your folders list
Step 2. Right click on our message in the list of messages
Step 3. Point to the Junk E-mail on the pop-up list
Step 4. Click on Add Sender to Safe Sender’s List or Click on Add Sender’s Domain to Safe Senders List
To Add to Address Book:
Step 1. Double click our name in the *From address* column of your Inbox. This will maximize the message.
Step 2. Right click on our email address on the upper left corner of the message. This will open up a menu box. Click on *Add to Outlook Contacts.*
Step 1. Click on the Junk Mail folder in your folders list
Step 2. Right click on our message in the list of messages
Step 3. Point to the Junk E-mail on the pop-up list
Step 4. Click on Add Sender to Safe Sender’s List or Click on Add Sender’s Domain to Safe Senders List
To Add to Address Book:
Step 1. Double click our name in the *From address* column of your Inbox. This will maximize the message.
Step 2. Right click on our email address on the upper left corner of the message. This will open up a menu box. Click on *Add to Outlook Contacts.*
Other Email Applications
Many popular e-mail programs, including Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora, and Netscape Mail, don’t provide a convenient way for you to white-list the folks you want to receive e-mail from. If you’re using this sort of e-mail system and you either aren’t getting your lessons or want to make sure you continue to receive our mails in the future, you can do something about it.
Contact the customer service people or the Postmaster at the company that provides your e-mail or Internet connection (your ISP). Explain to them that our is an e-mail that you asked for and value. Ask them if they can white-list our email address. They’ll probably ask you for some information about us. Here’s what to tell them:
- Sending Address: If they ask for our address, give them the address in the From line of your most recent email.
- Domain: If they need to know the domain we’re mailing from, tell them both of these:
mindvalley.netthewinningsage.com
thewinningsage