How to Get on a Whitelist

Loren McDonald - Oct 26, 2005

Even though the email industry is moving toward authentication and certification to separate spammers and phishers from legitimate senders, “whitelists” and “blacklists” are still the first line of defense for many ISPs and individual users.
They use both lists to determine whether your email gets delivered as you intend, [...]

Whitelisting with AOL

by Douglas Karr
Perhaps because it’s the largest ISP and the most finicky about emails, AOL really does have a fantastic Postmaster service online. I had to contact them a few weeks ago when a client reported that they were having issues with email getting through to AOL email addresses. Sure enough, we found [...]

Whitelisting with Yahoo!

by Douglas Karr
This morning I located a bulk email application form for Yahoo! It doesn’t appear as robust as the program that the AOL postmasters have put up for applying to their Whitelist but I’m glad to finally find one!

Some recommendations before you apply:

Be sure you have reverse DNS lookup enabled on the IP [...]

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