How to Optimize Delivery to Your Email Account
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Unsolicited email, commonly referred to as SPAM, poses a major challenge when it comes to delivering the emails that YOU have paid us to deliver. As the volume of SPAM increases, ISPs and have become increasingly zealous in their filtering efforts. We have partnered with the industry's leading delivery experts to do everything we can to ensure delivery of our emails, but there are a few steps you should take on your end to guarantee delivery.

If you suspect that you are not receiving our Newsletter, or you notice sporadic delivery, you should be sure that our email address is included on your "whitelist" or "approved senders list."

Here are the 2 most important steps you can take toward guaranteeing delivery of our alerts:
  1. Add our address ( postmaster@programbusiness.com and emailer@programbusiness.com ) to your address book
  1. Ask your Internet Service Provider's technical support (or your company’s email administrator) to add our sender information to their SPAM filter’s whitelist:
    • Our sending address: response.programbusinessmail.com
       
    • Please Whitelist (response.programbusinessmail.com)
       
    • Our mailservers' IP addresses: 98.174.154.82 (response.programbusinessmail.com)
Please consider the following tips and adjust your email client to ensure that you don't miss a single issue of our Newsletter.
 
Gmail

If you're using Google's Gmail for e-mail, you can ensure that our Newsletter is delivered to your Inbox by either adding the sending address to your Contacts list or by marking any incorrectly filed e-mail as "Not Spam". Here's how:
  • Open the latest issue of the e-mail you want to whitelist.
  • Click the More Options link. It's on the title line of the e-mail, over on the right, next to the date. (If you see "Hide Options" instead, then you already have the extra options visible and can just skip this step.)
  • When the extra options are visible (just below the subject line), click the Add sender to contacts list link

Alternatively, you can just send an e-mail to postmaster@programbusiness.com , emailer@programbusiness.com and that will add the address to your Contacts list automatically.

Even if the e-mail you send doesn't get through (for whatever reason), the act of sending it does the job of putting the address into your Contacts list--and that's what counts.

If one of your our Newsletter has been filtered into the Spam folder, you can prevent that ever happening again:
  • Click on the Spam link to open your Spam folder.
  • Click on the wrongly filtered e-mail to open it.
  • Click the Not Spam button at the top of the e-mail (right next to "Delete Forever").
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Outlook 2003/2007/2010
If you're using Outlook 2003 for your e-mail, you can make sure our Newsletter is delivered to your Inbox by letting Outlook know you consider it safe. There are a few ways you can do this:

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For AOL version 9.0: you can ensure that valued e-mail is delivered to your Inbox by adding the sending address to your "People I Know" list.
  • Open the latest issue of our Newsletter.
  • Click the Add Address button (over on the right) to add that sender to your "People I Know" list.

Alternatively, you can simply send an e-mail to postmaster@programbusiness.com and emailer@programbusiness.com

Even if the e-mail you send doesn't get through (for whatever reason), the act of sending it does the job of putting the address into your "People I Know" list--and that's what counts.

If you're using an earlier version of AOL, you'll need to set your Mail Controls instead. Here's how:

  • Go to Keyword Mail Controls.
  • Select the screen name our Newsletter is coming to.
  • Click Customize Mail Controls For This Screen Name.

For AOL version 8.0: Select Allow email from all AOL members, email addresses and domains.

  • Click Next until the Save button shows up at the bottom.
  • Click Save.
 
 
 

To ensure that our Newsletter is delivered to your Yahoo Inbox (not the Bulk Mail folder), you can instruct Yahoo to filter it to your Inbox. Here's how:

  • Open your Yahoo mailbox.
  • Click Mail Options.
  • Click Filters.
  • Next, click Add Filter.
  • In the top row, labeled From header:, make sure contains is selected in the pull-down menu.
  • Click in the text box next to that pull-down menu, then enter the address postmaster@programbusiness.com and emailer@programbusiness.com
  • At the bottom, where it says Move the message to, select Inbox from the pull-down menu.
  • Click the Add Filter button again.
 
 
 

If you're using MSN version 9 for your e-mail, you can make sure our Newsletter is delivered to your Inbox by adding the sending address to your Safe List. Here's how:

  • Click on Settings: E-mail | Junk e-mail (it's at the bottom left of the screen, just above Calendar).
  • On the E-mail settings screen, click Junk E-Mail Guard.
  • Select Safe List.
  • In the space provided under "Add people to the safe list", enter the address postmaster@programbusiness.com and emailer@programbusiness.com
  • Click Add.

For older versions of MSN, you add our sending address to your Safe List like this:

  • Click on E-mail settings (it's at the bottom left of the screen, just above Calendar).
  • On the E-mail settings screen, click Junk Mail.
  • Select Safe List.
  • Click Add an item to this list.
  • When the Add To Safe List box appears, enter the address postmaster@programbusiness.com and emailer@programbusiness.com
  • Click Add.