Your email programme can easily mistake important messages for junk mail and sent them to your bulk or junk mail folder. To ensure the emails you’d like to receive are delivered to your inbox and not to your junk mail folder, add the relevant email addresses to your address book. Here is how you can do it:

Gmail | Yahoo | Hotmail | AOL | Rediffmail | Outlook 2007 / 2003

Gmail

  1. Click on the Contacts link in your mailbox screen. A screen opens.
  2. Click on Create Contact on the top of the contacts screen. In higher version browsers (like IE 8), click on the button New Contact
  3. Type or copy and paste the email address – say: pelia@woolfitts.com in the Primary email field and then click on the Save button.
  4. Repeat the procedure for adding any other address.

Yahoo – Classic

  1. Click on the Contacts tab on the top navigation bar of your mailbox.
  2. Then click on the Add Contact button.
  3. Type or copy and paste the email address – say: pelia@woolfitts.com in the Nickname and click on the Save button. (All the other fields are optional and can be left blank.)
  4. Repeat the procedure for adding other address.

Yahoo – All new mail

  1. Right click on the email you have received. A menu opens up.
  2. Click on Add sender to contacts option. Add Contact box opens.
  3. You will notice that the email ID is already inserted in the Email field.
  4. Click on the Save button to save and close the box.

To add a new email addresses to your address book follow these steps:

  1. Click on the link Add on the Contacts button on the left hand navigation panel of your mail box. A form opens.
  2. Type or copy and paste the email address – say: pelia@woolfitts.com in the Email field
  3. Enter a name in the Nickname field – say: Taj (It takes in alphanumeric entries too.)
  4. Click on the Save button. (All the other fields are optional and can be left blank.)
  5. Repeat the procedure for adding other address.

Hotmail

  1. Click on the Contacts list button in your mailbox screen.
  2. Then click on New on the top of the Contacts screen
  3. Type or copy and paste the email address – say: pelia@woolfitts.com in the Personal email field and then click on the Save button.
  4. Repeat the procedure for adding other address.

AOL

  1. From your mailbox screen, click on Contacts.
  2. Click the Add new contact button on top of the Contacts Screen
  3. Type or copy and paste the e-mail address – say: pelia@woolfitts.com in the Email 1 field and then click the Create button. (All the other fields are optional and can be left blank)
  4. Repeat the procedure for adding other address

Rediffmail

  1. From your mailbox screen, click on Contacts.
  2. Click the New Contact button on top of the Contact Screen
  3. Type or copy and paste the e-mail address – say: pelia@woolfitts.com in the Email field
  4. Insert a name in the Nickname field – it can take in alphanumeric names too.
  5. Then click on the Save button. (All the other fields are optional and can be left blank.)
  6. Repeat the procedure for adding other address.

Outlook 2007 / 2003

  1. In your Inbox, right click on the email you have received.
  2. Click on Junk Email option in the menu that opens.
  3. Click on Add Sender to Safe Sender List option.