Spam, spam, spam, spam

No, not the canned meat.  On the odd occasion, I hear from some of you that the church newsletter ends up in your spam folder in your email client.
Preventing the church emails from ending up in your spam folder is usually fairly simple.  But not always.  Patience and trial and error sometimes are required.
To start with, the easiest thing to do is to make sure that the church email address is in your address book, as many spam filters’ first line of defense is to only allow emails through that are from a known email address.  The church newsletters are sent from peter@waterburyucc.com. (Please note, that I’ve changed this, as a result of this research.  I formerly used my pplagge95@gmail.com account.  I have learned that gmail domains are often used by spammers, and therefore more likely to be flagged than others.  Our church domain specific address may work better in this regard.)
A possible easy solution is to go into your spam folder, find this church newsletter (because it has the new address) and mark it as “Not Spam.”  In my gmail client, this can be done simply by right clicking on the email in your spam folder which then gives you choices — “Not Spam,” “Mark as Read,” and “Delete Forever.”
Because Spam is such a serious issue — once an email is removed or marked as spam on your end, it is quite difficult to reinstate.  Call us at the church if that happens.
One last note — it is not always easy for me to know if newsletters are triggering spam alerts.  Please let us know if you think you should be receiving a newsletter but are not.  Also, note that we do not send out newsletters every Friday.  That said, we rarely go two weeks in a row without sending something out, unless it’s August!
Thanks for your help with this.