How to Whitelist

Follow the advice here to ensure you get your email from us.


Internet Service Providers or ISPs (ex., earthlink.net, comcast.net) and Web-based mail services (ex., Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail, Gmail) use filters to keep spam out of your inbox.  Sometimes they accidentally filter the e-mail that you want.

Mistakes happen.  There is a ton of spam, so good e-mail can be filtered out by mistake.  We all have to deal, unfortunately, with the fallout of what spammers do to the Internet.

Naturally, you want to keep spam out.  And you need to receive important communications, such as the daily e-mail devotionals, daily study question e-mails, thank you e-mails, our e-zines and any other e-mail that you have specifically requested (we only send mail that you request).

Your goal and ours is to avoid the cross-fire of the ever-escalating war between spammers and ISPs/mail services.


Using Yahoo! Mail, Hotmail, Gmail, or Other Web-based Mail?

Check your Bulk, Junk or Spam folder (respectively).  If you find an e-mail there from free-online-bible-study.com or daily-devotional.free-online-bible-study.com click to indicate that it is not bulk, junk or spam.  The same type of process works for all major Web-based e-mail services (ex., AOL's).

Hotmail: Click the Options link on the main menu tabs, then Safe List. Add our address to the Safe List.  For newsletters, flag the first issue. This will ensure that it's kept in your inbox.  The default for newsletters is to delete each issue after a week.  To keep them all, change the newsletter settings.

Yahoo!: Click Mail Options > Filters > Add Filter and add our address.


Using Outlook, Apple Mail, Thunderbird or Other Client-side E-mail Software?

You may not receive e-mail you want if it has been filtered out by your ISP before they deliver it to you.  This may not be as easy to resolve as Web-based e-mail.  But here is what we recommend...

AOL (aol.com): 

Log into your AOL/AIM Webmail Account and add free-online-bible-study.com to your Address Book (click the Add Address button to add to your "People I Know" list).  Check AOL's help for additional details, if required.  You could also indicate "not spam" in AOL's Webmail.

Other ISPs (ex., att.net, attglobal.net, bellsouth.net, earthlink.net, verizon.net, comcast.net):

They intentionally are impossible to reach.  They don't want to argue. Either use their Web-based e-mail once to indicate that mail from free-online-bible-study.com is not spam or switch to Gmail or Yahoo! Mail (the most reliable mail delivery systems).

To Receive E-mail That You Have Missed...

OK, you have either indicated that a free-online-bible-study.com e-mail is not junk or you have switched your address to Yahoo! Mail or Gmail (if your ISP will not help you out).  And now you want to receive "that missing mail."  Here's what to do...

Send us an e-mail via this page. Please tell us...

  • the name of the e-zine or which e-mail you did not receive
  • your first and last name
  • the e-mail address that we should send to now.

We will re-send your e-mail in a jiffy.

We hope this helps - God Bless