How to Import Your Address Book (Contact List)
into Your Whitelist

This document tells you how you can export your address book (contact list) from your mail program so that you can use those email addresses in the whitelist area of the server-side spam control system. By doing this, any messages from people in your address book / contact list will always be delivered to you without possibly being "held" in the Spam Digest.
Instructions on how to do this are presently available for:

Outlook Express

Before doing this, you may want to make sure your version of Internet Explorer (includes Outlook Express) is current (security patches, etc.) by visiting Microsoft's Windows Update site (http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com)
  1. From within Outlook Express, click on File, then Export, then Address Book.
  2. Choose "Text File (Comma Separated Values)" then click Export.
  3. Enter a file name (e.g.: addressbook.txt) and click Next. This will save it to your Desktop.
  4. From the list of fields to export, choose only "E-mail Address" then click Finish.
  5. Double-click on the addressbook.txt file on your Desktop to open it in Notepad.
  6. Delete the first line of the file (since it's not an email address).
  7. Hit control-a (or click on Edit then Select All) to highlight everything.
  8. Hit control-c (or click on Edit then Copy) to copy the contents into the clipboard (you won't see anything happen when you do this).
  9. Go into the Whitelist settings in the Server-side Spam Control site.
  10. Make sure the cursor is blinking in the From (Reply-to) field and hit control-v (or click on Edit then Paste). This will paste the email addresses from your address book into the field.
  11. When you're finished, click on Submit Changes at the bottom of the form.

Outlook 2002 (XP) and 2003

Before doing this, you may want to make sure your version of Microsoft Outlook is current (security patches, etc.) by visiting Microsoft's Office Updates site (http://office.microsoft.com/officeupdate)
  1. From within Outlook 2002 or 2003, click on File then Import Export...
  2. Choose "Export to a file" and click Next.
  3. Choose "Comma Separated Values (Windows)" and click Next.
  4. From the list of items to export, click on Contacts and click Next.
  5. Enter a file name (e.g.: addressbook.txt) and click Next. This will save it to your Desktop (Outlook 2002) or My Documents folder (Outlook 2003).
  6. Click on "Map Custom Fields..." button.
  7. In the "Map Custom Fields" window:
    1. Click the Clear Map button near the bottom of the window.
    2. On the left side, scroll down and click the [+] next to Email.
    3. On the left side, drag Email Address to the right side of the window.
    4. After Email Address appears on the right side (and nothing else), click OK.
  8. Click Finish.
  9. Double-click on the addressbook.txt file on your Desktop to open it in Notepad.
  10. Delete the first line of the file (since it's not an email address).
  11. Remove all double-quotes ( " ) from the file.
    If you're using Windows NT, 2000, XP, or 2003, you can easily do this:
    Hit control-h (or click on Edit then Replace...)
        Find what: " (double-quote -- NOT two single-quotes)
        Replace with: (leave blank)
        Click Replace All and the double-quotes will disappear.
        Click Cancel (or close the window) when the double-quotes have been removed.
  12. Hit control-a (or click on Edit then Select All) to highlight everything.
  13. Hit control-c (or click on Edit then Copy) to copy the contents into the clipboard (you won't see anything happen when you do this).
  14. Go into the Whitelist settings in the Server-side Spam Control site.
  15. Make sure the cursor is blinking in the From (Reply-to) field and hit control-v (or click on Edit then Paste). This will paste the email addresses from your contact list into the field.
  16. When you're finished, click on Submit Changes at the bottom of the form.