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By adding us to your contacts or address book, also known as “whitelisting,” you’ll be more likely to see our emails in your inbox.

If you do not see an email from Rick Thyne in your inbox, our email may have mistakenly been sent to your spam folder. Start by opening your spam folder, finding an email from Rick Thyne and marking it as “not spam.”

If you don’t find an email from Rick Thyne in your spam folder, keep scrolling to find instructions for your email provider.

Please add our email address (rickeythyne [at] gmail [dot] com) to your contacts or your address book to ensure that we always make it to your primary inbox.

GMAIL

At times, Gmail mistakenly sends emails you want to the spam folder. If you do not find an email from Rick Thyne in your inbox, please check your Gmail spam folder.

If you can’t find Rick Thyne in your spam folder, follow the steps below to have all our emails directly sent to your inbox.

Create a filter

  1. Find and open an email from Rick Thyne

  2. Click the dots button on the top right to reveal your choices.

  3. Click “Filter messages like this”

  4. Click “Create filter” to open your settings

  5. From the next menu, select these options: Never send it to spam, Always mark it as important, also Apply filter to matching conversations, categorize as: choose category.

  6. Click the dropdown icon next to “Choose Category…”

  7. Select Primary in the next options menu.

  8. Click the blue Create filter button, to save your settings

Now you will always see I’ve Been Thinking in your Primary Inbox tab!

Mark the email as “not spam”

  1. Open an email from Rick Thyne

  2. Click the button on the alert labeled Report Not Spam

Add I’ve Been Thinking to your contacts list

  1. Open an email from Rick Thyne.

  2. Click the drop down arrow next to “Reply” in the upper right corner

  3. Click “Add Rick Thyne to Contacts List” from the list that appears.

  4. If Rick Thyne does not appear in the dropdown list, then you probably have already added Rick Thyne to contacts.

Check the Promotions tab

  1. Open your Promotions tab in Gmail.

  2. When you find the email from Rick Thyne

  3. Tap the three dots menu icon – top right.

  4. Then select Move to.

  5. Then select Primary from the list.

This should help Gmail to know, you always want to see I’ve Been Thinking in your Primary Inbox tab…

Gmail tabs

If you are using Gmail Tabs such as ‘Promotions’ please open your Promotions tab in Gmail.

  1. Find an email from Rick Thyne in your Gmail Promotions tab

  2. Grab and drag that email to the Primary Inbox tab

  3. Confirm that you want future emails from us to land in your Primary tab

Also you can create a filter…

  1. Open an email from Rick Thyne in your Gmail Promotions tab

  2. Click the dots menu on the top left of the email.

  3. Click Filter messages like this

  4. Click the button Create filter to open your settings

  5. Select Primary in the next options menu

  6. Click the blue Create filter button to save your settings

iOS (iPhone mail app)

iPhone Mail identifies most junk mail (spam) sent to your @icloud.com address or aliases, but it can mistakenly move email incorrectly to your Junk mail folder.

Periodically check the Junk folder for email messages that were marked as junk mistakenly.

To indicate that an email message from Rick Thyne isn’t junk:

  1. Open your Mail app and go to the Mailboxes screen

  2. Scroll down to the folders area

  3. Select the Junk folder.

  4. Find the email from Rick Thyne and slide it left to see options.

  5. Tap the More button.

  6. Tap the Mark button.

  7. Tap the Mark as Not Junk button.

The message is moved to your Inbox. Subsequent email messages from us will no longer be marked as junk.

By default, messages in the Junk folder are deleted after 30 days so be sure to check it often to whitelist relevant email.

Yahoo

If you do not see an email from Rick Thyne in your Inbox…

Check your Spam Folder. If an email from Rick Thyne is there?

  1. Please open the email.

  2. Next click the Not Spam button on the top toolbar.

To ensure delivery: Create a filter to automatically send email from Rick Thyne to your Inbox.

  1. Move your mouse over or tap the Gear icon in the top right navigation bar.

  2. Select Settings from the list that drops down.

  3. Choose Filters located on the left side of the page.

  4. Click the Add button on the Filters page.

  5. Create a name such as Whitelist in the Filter name field.

  6. In the From field leave the default contains selected.

  7. Enter our email address rickeythyne@gmail.com in the text box next to Contains…

  8. Choose the destination folder to which you would like the message delivered. For example: Inbox.

  9. Click or tap Save…

  10. You will see in the next screen -Deliver to Inbox if From contains Rick Thyne–

  11. Click or tap Save on this screen.

  12. You will be returned to your Yahoo! Inbox.

Outlook

Outlook App

Outlook’s mobile app now offers a “Focused Inbox” for your important email

To add I’ve Been Thinking to your list of Focused Inbox on the Outlook App…

Please open the mobile Outlook app on your Android, Microsoft or iPhone:

Then open the email from Rick Thyne:

  1. Click the three dot icon in the top right of your Inbox.

  2. On the menu displayed tap Move to Focused Inbox

  3. Select the Move this and all future messages button.

  4. Tap Move

  5. Now all future messages from Rick Thyne will appear in your Focused Inbox

You can also remove unwanted emails from your Focused Inbox as well by repeating this process in your Focused tab.

Outlook 2003, 2016 and Office 365

To ensure you continue to receive important emails in Outlook Office:

Please add Rick Thyne to your list of “Safe senders” on Outlook:

  1. Right click our email in your Inbox email list pane.

  2. On the menu displayed move your mouse over or tap Junk

  3. Click or tap on Never block sender in the menu that rolls out.

  4. The resulting popup will say:

  5. “The sender of the selected message has been added to your Safe Senders List.”

  6. Click OK

To add sender to address book:

  1. Open the email

  2. Right click on the from address

  3. Choose Add to contacts option

Outlook.com

Previously “Hotmail”, “Live”, “Windows Live” and “MSN”…

In the new Outlook.com you must click the Wait it’s safe link if you find emails incorrectly identified as spam.

Entering the email contact in the address book or contacts no longer whitelists the sender.

To ensure messages from specific email addresses are not sent to your Junk Email folder, you can do one of two things:

  1. Check the Junk folder. If you see an I’ve Been Thinking email in your Inbox

  2. Open the email

  3. Click the “Wait it’s safe” link

Mark Sender as “Wait it’s safe!

Manually Add to Safe List

  1. Click gear the icon on the top right.

  2. Select Options in the drop down list.

  3. On the Options page under Preventing junk email click Safe and blocked senders

  4. Click the link Safe senders on the next page.

  5. Enter the email address rickeythyne@gmail.com in the text box.

  6. Click Add to list

  7. Rick Thyne will now be added to your list of Safe senders

  8. Emails added to your Safe senders will not be delivered by mistake to your Junk folder.

AOL

To ensure important emails get delivered to your AOL Inbox- Please complete these two steps…

If you find I’ve Been Thinking in your spam folder:

  1. Right click the email.

  2. Click “Not spam” in the resulting list.

Add rickeythyne@gmail.com to your Address Book:

  1. Open the email from Rick Thyne

  2. Click the show details link next to Rick Thyne in the From field.

  3. Move your mouse over or tap rickeythyne@gmail.com to show the menu.

  4. Click or tap Add contact in the menu displayed.

  5. Add Rick Thyne to the name fields

  6. Click Add contact

Next: Please Enable Images

  1. By default AOL now blocks all images.

  2. Open the email from Rick Thyne please.

  3. Click Don’t block this sender please.

  4. Now you will see our complete emails with no additional effort on your part…

Email from that domain will now be delivered straight to your Inbox.