Do you You missed an important email one day. Why didn't they reach your inbox and went straight to spam? This is because email providers like Gmail already use sophisticated filters that automatically move any suspicious or unwanted emails to spam. However, legitimate emails are also falsely marked as spam. Here are ways to prevent emails from a known sender from going to your Gmail spam folder.
Gmail's filter marks any suspicious email as spam. There's no way to specify or control which emails are marked as spam. However, you can use the methods below to ensure that future emails from known senders end up in your inbox instead of your spam folder.
Of course, you'll need to know the email address of the person you want to whitelist. You can use any of the methods below to prevent known senders from going to your Gmail spam folder. Let's check it out.
1. Add an address to the contact.
The easiest way to prevent emails from known senders from ending up in spam is to: Add them to your contact listThis helps Google know that the contact is someone you know, and their emails should arrive in your inbox.
Follow the steps below to quickly add a known sender as a contact on Gmail.
Step 1: Open gmail in web browser.
Step 2: Open Email address From the person you want to add as a contact.
Step 3: move pointer To Email sender name and select the icon Add to contacts from the menu that appears.
And that's it. Since you've already received an email from this contact, Gmail will automatically enter their name and email address.
If you want to add someone as a contact who you haven't received email from, follow the steps below.
Step 1: Log in to Gmail account Your web browser.
Step 2: Click Google apps icon in the upper right corner and select Contacts From the resulting menu. This will open the website. Google Contacts in a new tab.
Step 3: Click Create a contact and select Create a contact from the list.
Step 4: On your right, enter the details Related about the contact and press save.
2. Mark it as not spam
There is another way to prevent access. Important Emails Marking emails as not spam in Gmail will instantly move the email from your spam folder to your inbox and help Google recognize the importance of emails from this sender.
This method is also useful if you've spammed someone in the past. However, you may have to do this multiple times for the same sender.
Step 1: Launch your favorite web browser and log in to Gmail account Yours if you haven't already.
Step 2: use right part to move to Spam folder.
Step 3: Open Email address From the well-known sender.
Step 4: Click Report it as not spam.
This will move the conversation to your inbox, and all future messages will arrive in your inbox.
3. Create a filter
Creating filters in Gmail allows you to automate your inbox with a series of custom rules. You can use this to whitelist multiple email addresses or domains at once to ensure that all emails from those addresses don't go to spam. Here's how.
Step 1: Log in to Gmail account Your and click the icon gear In the upper right corner to select the display All settings.
Step 2: Switch to tab "Filters and Banned Addresses". then select Create a new filter.
Step 3: Enter the email address you want to whitelist in the From field. Make sure to type the full email address. Similarly, you can also whitelist a specific domain, such as @ guidingtech.com.
Then click Create a filter.
Step 4: Locate “Do not send it to spam” From the next screen click on Create a filter.
And you're all set. All future emails from this address will arrive in your inbox. Similarly, if you want to whitelist more than one email address or domain, you can add them all in the "From" field in Step 3 above.
All you have to do is separate the email address as shown below.
[email protected] | [email protected] | [email protected] | @a7la-home.com
Note that the filter does not affect messages already received. Only future messages from the specified email address or domain will reach your inbox.
Never miss an important email.
Gmail's spam filters are pretty accurate at separating spam from important messages. But sometimes, these filters can make mistakes. Fortunately, you can use the methods above to ensure that emails from known senders are always delivered to you.
