Not getting IRL's free e-newsletter or other emailed items? Maybe your software has blocked us by its spam-protection methods.

Your Internet service provider (or you, or both) might be aggressively filtering your email to prevent spam. Unfortunately, the more aggressive the filter, the less likely you'll get legitimate email such as our timely and informative newsletter, IRL News Briefs. Follow these simple instructions to set your e-mail program to accept our newsletters. This is called "whitelisting."

Do this by setting your email program to automatically allow us to get into your inbox. Here are step-by-step instructions for whitelisting the email address that we use, religiouslife@ameritech.net, for many mail programs:

Microsoft Entourage for Macintosh

1. Under the Tools menu, choose Junk Mail Filter
2. In the text box marked "Do not apply to messages from these," add religiouslife@ameritech.net to the listed domains, separated with a comma
3. Click OK

Microsoft Outlook 2003

1. Under the Tools menu, choose Options
2. Click on Junk E-mail
3. Click on Safe Senders or Safe Recipients tab
4. Click on Add
5. Type religiouslife@ameritech.net in the text box
6. Click OK

AOL Mail

1. Go to AOL Keyword: Mail Center, or the Mail Center online
2. Click on Address Book
3. Enter religiouslife@ameritech.net into your address book
4. Make sure you haven't excluded Internet mail or have disallowed all mail except from people you know at AOL Keyword: Mail Controls.

Yahoo! web-based email

1. With your browser, login to your Yahoo! email account
2. Click on Mail Options
3. Under Spam, click on Filters
4. Click on Add
5. Fill in the form as follows:
—Filter Name: religiouslife@ameritech.net
—Body contains: Office of the Commissioner
—Move the message to: Inbox
6. Click on Add Filter

Hotmail and MSN web-based email

1. With your browser, login to your Hotmail/MSN email account
2. Click on Contacts
3. In the left column, click on Safe List
4. Type religiouslife@ameritech.net in the address/domain box
5. Click on Add

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Updated Jan. 25, 2005