How to Unblock Senders to Receive Verification Emails
Email services such as Hotmail, MSN, Outlook.com, Gmail and Yahoo Mail can block emails that include "no-reply" as the sender. In a case when your email account needs to be verified, and emails from "no-reply@blinkforhome.com" aren't received in your inbox, you will need to unblock it in your email preferences.
Outlook.com
- Go to Settings.
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Select View all Outlook settings.
Select Mail.
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Select Junk email.
- In the Blocked Senders and domains section, you'll see a list of senders that you've blocked in the past.
- To remove an address, select the trash can next to the email address.
- Select Save.
- Close the Settings window.
Gmail
- Click the gear icon and open Settings
Once you’re logged into your Gmail account, click the gear icon in the upper right-hand corner. From the drop-down menu, select Settings.
- Click Filters and Blocked Addresses
From the top menu, click Filters and Blocked Address.
- Click unblock
This page will show you a list of all of the email addresses you have blocked. Find the address you’d like to receive emails from again, and click unblock.
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Confirm unblocking
Lastly, confirm that you want to unblock this email address to start seeing their messages in your inbox again.
Yahoo Mail
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Go to Settings and click on "More Settings" on the bottom right of the screen.
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Click on "Security and privacy" in the left navigation to view any blocked addresses.
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Then click on the Contacts icon in the top left of the Home screen and add a new contact at the bottom.
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Enter the name "Blink" and "no-reply@blinkforhome.com" in the email field.
Then click Save to create the new contact.
Xfinity
- Go to Settings on the top right of the screen and click on "Email Settings".
- Select "Filter Rules" from the left menu and click on the Add new rule button.
- In the Create new rule screen enter a new name such as "Blink".
Under Conditions select "Sender/From" "Is exactly" and enter "no-reply@blinkforhome.com".
For Actions chose "Keep" which is the default option.
- You will then see your new rule listed in the Mail Filter Rules screen.
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