Instructions for Whitelisting Our Emails:
To ensure you receive all important updates and notifications from Lake Wimauma Community Recreation and Event Center, please whitelist our email addresses, which are @lakewimauma.com. Follow the instructions below to whitelist our emails with AOL, Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail, Outlook, Apple Mail, Thunderbird, and other email providers.
Gmail
- First, if you find an email from us in your Gmail spam folder, select our email and click the “Not Spam” button
- Next, open an email that you have received from us
- Click on the little down-pointing-triangle-arrow next to “Reply”:
- Click “Add @lakewimauma.com to Contacts list”
Microsoft Outlook
- On the Tools menu, click Options
- On the Preferences tab, click Junk E-mail
- On the Safe Senders tab, click Add
- Add @lakewimauma.com to ensure that the email we send where it says “Add address”
- Click OK
Apple Mail (Mac OS)
- First, if email from @lakewimauma.com To ensure that the email we send ends up in your junk folder, highlight or open it and click “Not Junk” at the top of your screen.
- Go to Mail > Preferences from your Mail menu
- Go to the Rules tab
- Select Add Rule
- Give this rule a name such as “Lake Wimauma”
- Create a rule that says “If any of the following conditions are met: ‘From’ ‘Contains’” and then paste in @lakewimauma.com
- From the actions, select ‘Move message’ to mailbox ‘Inbox’.
- Click “OK”
Hotmail
- To whitelist our address with Hotmail you will need to add @lakewimauma.com to your Hotmail Safe List.
- First, if you find an email from us in your Hotmail junk folder, open the email and click “Not Junk”
- Next, check to see if the email address @lakewimauma.com is on your Blocked Senders list. If you find @lakewimauma.com on your
- Hotmail blocked senders list, select it and click on the “Remove” button.
- Next, open your mailbox and click “Options” in the upper right-hand corner
- At the top of the page, click on the “Junk E-mail Protection” link
- Next, click on “Safe List”, which is down near the bottom
- Copy and paste @lakewimauma.com where it says “Type an address or domain”
- Click the “Add” button
AOL
- Open an email from us and then click the ‘This Is Not Spam’ button
- Click the Mail menu and select Address Book
- Wait for the Address Book window to pop up, then click the ‘Add’ button
- Wait for the Address Card for New Contact window to load
- Paste @lakewimauma.com into the ‘Other E-Mail’ field
- Make our “From” address, @lakewimauma.com, the Primary E-Mail address by checking the appropriate box
- Click “Save”
Postini
- You do not need to whitelist email from Lake Wimauma in Postini unless you find it trapped in the “Junk” area by Postini.
- Log into your Postini account
- Look to see if any emails from @lakewimauma.com are listed in your Junk area
- If you find an email from @lakewimauma.com in the Junk area, check the checkbox next to the email from @lakewimauma.com
- Click the “Deliver Selected” link at the very top of the Junk screen
- On the next screen, click the “Approve Sender” checkbox next to the email from @lakewimauma.com
- Click the “Approve Selected Senders” button
Thunderbird
- To whitelist in Thunderbird, you will need to add @lakewimauma.com to your address book and then set up your Thunderbird Junk Mail Controls to whitelist your address book.
- First, if you find an email from @lakewimauma.com in your Junk folder, right-click on our email and choose “Mark as Not Junk”
- Next, click the Address Book button
- Highlight the Personal Address Book
- Click on “New Card”
- In the “Contact” tab of the new card, copy and paste @lakewimauma.com to the email dialog box
- Click “Ok”
- Next, to whitelist your address book, select “Tools > Junk Mail Controls” from the drop-down menu
- Update the “White Lists” module under the “Settings” tab by selecting “Personal Address Book” from the drop-down menu, and then check the box next to “Do not mark messages as junk mail”
- Click “Ok”
Yahoo!
- To whitelist @lakewimauma.com with Yahoo!, you will need to set up a “filter” after first taking the following steps:
- If you find an email from @lakewimauma.com is going to your Yahoo! bulk folder, open it and click “Not Spam”
- Be sure that the addresses @lakewimauma.com are not in your “Blocked Addresses” list. If @lakewimauma.com are on your “Blocked Addresses” list, select it and click “Remove Block”
- Now to create the filter:
- Open your mail and click on “Mail Options” in the upper right-hand corner
- Select ‘Filters’ (in the bottom left corner)
- On the Filters page, click “Add”
- Select the “From header:” rule, and add “contains” and @lakewimauma.com which tells the system to put email with @lakewimauma.com in your inbox and not the bulk folder.
- Click the “Choose Folder” pull-down menu and select ‘Inbox’
- Pick the Add Filter button
AOL
- Open an email from us and then click the ‘This Is Not Spam’ button
- Click the Mail menu and select Address Book
- Wait for the Address Book window to pop up, then click the ‘Add’ button
- Wait for the Address Card for New Contact window to load
- Paste @lakewimauma.com into the ‘Other E-Mail’ field
- Make our “From” address, @lakewimauma.com, the Primary E-Mail address by checking the appropriate box
- Click “Save”
Postini
- You do not need to whitelist email from Lake Wimauma in Postini unless you find it trapped in the “Junk” area by Postini.
- Log into your Postini account
- Look to see if any emails from @lakewimauma.com are listed in your Junk area
- If you find an email from @lakewimauma.com in the Junk area, check the checkbox next to the email from @lakewimauma.com
- Click the “Deliver Selected” link at the very top of the Junk screen
- On the next screen, click the “Approve Sender” checkbox next to the email from @lakewimauma.com
- Click the “Approve Selected Senders” button
