Keeping AFA Emails Out Of Your Spam or Junk Email
Click here to subscribe to AFA Alaska emailsSeveral email providers (particularly AOL and Comcast) use very aggressive spam filtering to prevent unwanted junk emails from reaching their subscribers. Unfortunately, AFA Alaska emails sometimes get caught in these filters as well.
A “whitelist” is a list of email addresses that are known to the user of an email account. By adding AFA Alaska to the whitelist within your email account, you are telling their server that emails from AFA are trusted and can be let through the filters.
Instructions For Popular Email Platforms
ACS
- Access the email filtering service at http://controlpanel.acsalaska.net/account/filter
- Add info@afaalaska.org to the whitelist
AOL Mail
- Log in to your account at http://mail.aol.com
- Click Contacts in the right toolbar
- Click Add Contact
- Enter info@afaalaska.org and additional information if you wish
- Click Add Contact button in the popup to finish.
Comcast
- Log in to your account at http://web.mail.comcast.net
- Click Address Book from the menu
- Click New Contact
- Enter info@afaalaska.org in the emails field and additional information if you wish
- Click Save to finish
Earthlink
- Log in to your account at http://www.earthlink.net
- Click Address Book
- Click Add Contact
- Save info@afaalaska.org as a contact
GCI
- Log in to your account at http://www.gci.com
- Click Check Email
- Click on Settings and select Anti-Spam Settings.
- Enter any info@afaalaska.org into the Whitelist senders box
- Click Save Settings to finish
Gmail
- Log in to your account at http://mail.google.com
- Click the arrow next to “Gmail” under the Google logo
- Click Contacts
- Click New Contact
- Enter info@afaalaska.org in the email field and additional information if you wish
- The contact will save automatically
Hotmail/Windows Live Mail/Outlook
- Log in to your account at http://mail.live.com
- Click the settings icon (gear icon in top right corner)
- Click options
- Under “preventing junk mail”, click Safe and Blocked Senders
- Click Safe Senders
- Enter info@afaalaska.org
- Click Add to List
iCloud/Me.com
- Log in to your account at http://www.icloud.com
- Click Contacts
- Click the + button and choose New Contact
- Enter info@afaalaska.org in the email field and additional information if you wish
- Click Done to finish
NetZero
- Log in to your account at http://www.netzero.net
- Click the Address Book tab on the top menu bar
- Click Contacts
- Click Add Contact
- Enter info@afaalaska.org and additional information if you wish
- Click Save to finish
Yahoo! Mail
- Log in to your account at http://mail.yahoo.com
- Click on the contacts icon (address book)
- Click New Contact
- Enter info@afaalaska.org in the email field and additional information if you wish
- Click Save to finish