Taking about 2 minutes to get Lily and Thistle on your email “whitelist” will ensure that you don’t miss the free resources and special offers I send your way!

Included below is information on how to whitelist Lily and Thistle with Gmail, Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail, Outlook, ThunderBird, Apple Mail, AOL and Postini. Even if your ISP or email program is not listed, with these instructions you should be able to figure out how to whitelist our email address at any ISP or with any email program.

Also, if you find an email from hannah@lilyandthistle.com in your spam or junk folder, please hit the “not spam”, “not junk” or similar button, as that will train your program to whitelist it.

Gmail

1. First, if you find an 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 me.
3. Click on the little down-pointing-triangle-arrow next to “Reply.”
4. Click “Add Lily and Thistle to Contacts list”
5. On that same drop-down menu next to “Reply,” select “filter messages like this.” You’ll see that “hannah@lilyandthistle.com” is automatically there in the “from” field and you’ll click on the blue text in the bottom right corner of the box that says “create filter” (no need to do anything else in that box).  On the next screen, you can check the boxes for “star it,” “never send to spam,” and “always mark as important.”

 

Yahoo!

To whitelist hannah@lilyandthistle.com with Yahoo!, you will need to set up a “filter” after first taking the following steps:

1. If you find an email from hannah@lilyandthistle.com is going to your Yahoo! bulk folder, open it and click “Not Spam”
2. Be sure that the address hannah@lilyandthistle.com is not in your “Blocked Addresses” list. If hannah@lilyandthistle.com is on your “Blocked Addresses” list, select it and click “Remove Block”

Now to create the filter:

3. Open your mail and click on “Mail Options” in the upper right-hand corner
4. Select ‘Filters’ (in the bottom left corner)
5. On the Filters page, click “Add”
6. Select the “From header:” rule, and add “contains” and hannah@lilyandthistle.com, which tells the system to put email with hannah@lilyandthistle.com in your inbox and not the bulk folder.
7. Click the “Choose Folder” pull-down menu and select ‘Inbox.’
8. Pick the “Add Filter” button.

Hotmail

To whitelist our address with Hotmail you will need to add hannah@lilyandthistle.com to your Hotmail Safe List. Here’s how:

1. First, if you find an email from me in your Hotmail junk folder, open the email and click “Not Junk”
2. Next, check to see if the email address hannah@lilyandthistle.com is on your Blocked Senders list. If you find hannah@lilyandthistle.com on your Hotmail blocked senders list, 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 hannah@lilyandthistle.com where it says “Type an address or domain”
7. Click the “Add” button

 

Microsoft Outlook

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 hannah@lilyandthistle.com where it says “Add address”
5. Click OK

Thunderbird

To whitelist in Thunderbird, you will need to add hannah@lilyandthistle.com to your address book and then set up your Thunderbird Junk Mail Controls to whitelist your address book.

1. First, if you find email from hannah@lilyandthistle.com in your Junk folder, right-click on our email and choose “Mark as Not Junk”
2. Next, click the Address Book button

Apple Mail for OS X

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

AOL
To add hannah@lilyandthistle.com to your AOL address book:

1. Open an email from us and then click the ‘This Is Not Spam’ button
2. Click the Mail menu and select Address Book
3. Wait for the Address Book window to pop up, then click the ‘Add’ button
4. Wait for the Address Card for New Contact window to load
5. Paste hannah@lilyandthistle.com into the ‘Other E-Mail’ field
6. Make our “From” address, hannah@lilyandthistle.com, the Primary E-Mail address by checking the appropriate box
7. Click “Save”

Postini

You do not need to whitelist email from Lily and Thistle in Postini unless you find it trapped in the “Junk” area by Postini.

1. Log into your Postini account
2. Look to see if any email from hannah@lilyandthistle.com is listed in your Junk area
3. If you find email from hannah@lilyandthistle.com in the Junk area, check the checkbox next to the email from hannah@lilyandthistle.com
4. Click the “Deliver Selected” link at the very top of the Junk screen
5. On the next screen, click the “Approve Sender” checkbox next to the email from hannah@lilyandthistle.com
6. Click the “Approve Selected Senders” button