An increasing number of email clients (e.g. Outlook) and providers (e.g. Hotmail, Gmail) are including spam blockers that are designed to prevent you receiving junk and unwanted emails. However, these are not perfect systems and sometimes affect your ability to receive legitimate emails - sometimes they may be displayed without images, or may not reach you at all.

We are aware that, on occasion, the school's Arbor messages are being incorrectly identified as spam, because of the way Arbor (who provide the system to the school) sends out the emails in bulk.

 While we work with Arbor to work out how to stop this happening, we are able to offer the following suggestions for ways to manually add the appropriate sending email address to your "safe senders" list, which should stop the messages being categorised as spam. The steps for the most commonly-used email clients and providers are shown below. We will update this list as frequently as we are able.

If your email package or service is not listed below, please let us know, and we will try and add it during an update.

 Outlook 2010

1. On the Home tab, in the Delete group, click Junk and then click Junk E-mail Options.
2. On the Safe Senders tab, click Add.
3. In the Enter an e-mail address... box, type (or copy and paste) the following address:

   no-reply@mail.arbor-education.com

4. Click OK.
    

Outlook 2007 or Outlook 2003

If you can see an email from the school, either in your inbox or elsewhere, highlight it and then:

1. Go to Actions on your email menu bar.
2. Select Junk E-mail from the pull-down menu.
3. Click Add sender to Safe Senders List.
   
   

If you cannot see an email from the school:

1. Go to Tools on your menu bar.
2. Select Options from the pull-down menu.
3. Within Preferences, click Junk E-mail.
4. Click on the Safe Sender tab and then click the Add button.
5. Type (or copy and paste) the following email address into the box:

   no-reply@mail.arbor-education.com

6. Click OK to all open windows.
   
   

Outlook Express

1. Go to Tools on the menu bar.
2. Select Options from the pull-down menu.
3. Within Preferences, click Junk email.
4. Click on the Safe Sender tab, and then click on the Add button.
5. In the box that appears, type (or copy and paste) the following address:

   no-reply@mail.arbor-education.com

6. Click OK to all windows.
   
   

Apple Mail

Apple Mail will automatically trust any email received from addresses that are included in your address book. Therefore, the simplest approach is to add the following email address to your address book:

no-reply@mail.arbor-education.com

If your system has already categorised the emails as spam, they will be delivered directly to your Junk box. To resolve this, follow these steps:

1. Find one of the messages within Junk and highlight it.
2. Click Message.
3. Click Mark.
4. Click As Not Junk Mail.
   
   

Gmail

1. Click the cog icon in the top-right corner and choose Settings.
2. Click on Filters and then choose Create a new filter.
3. In the To field, type (or copy and paste) the following email address:

   no-reply@mail.arbor-education.com

4. Click Create filter with this search.
5. In the box headed When a message arrives that matches this search, select Never send it to spam.
6. Click Create filter.
   
   

Hotmail or Outlook.com

1. Click Options in the top-right corner (next to the question mark) and choose More options.
2. Under Preventing junk email, click on Safe and blocked senders and then choose Safe senders.
3. In the space provided, type (or copy and paste) the following address:

   no-reply@mail.arbor-education.com

4. Click Add to list.
5. Click OK.
   
   

Yahoo! mail

Yahoo! mail will automatically trust any email received from addresses that are included in your address book.

1. Click on the address book icon under the Yahoo! mail logo. (When you mouse crosses it, it will say Contacts.)
2. Click New contact.
3. Provide a suitable name (such as "Lytchett Minster School") and type (or copy and paste) the following email address:

   no-reply@mail.arbor-education.com

4. Click Save.