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How to Whitelist The Atlantic’s Email Newsletters

To make sure you continue receiving The Atlantic’s newsletters without interruption, we recommend whitelisting theatlantic.com with your email provider. This allows your inbox to trust any email sent from an @theatlantic.com address and helps prevent messages from being filtered into spam or promotions folders.

Recommended: Whitelist theatlantic.com

Whitelisting the entire domain is the easiest and most reliable option, especially if you subscribe to multiple newsletters or sign up for new ones in the future.

If your email provider does not support domain-level whitelisting, adding newsletters@theatlantic.com to your contacts or safe sender list will cover most newsletter sends.

Some providers also allow (or require) individual sender addresses. Instructions for those options are included below.

Whitelisting Instructions by Email Provider

Gmail

  1. Open an email from The Atlantic.
  2. Drag the message into your Primary tab (if it appears in Promotions or another tab).
  3. When prompted, click Yes to confirm.

For additional assurance, you can also add theatlantic.com or newsletters@theatlantic.com to your Google Contacts.

Apple Mail

  1. Open an email from The Atlantic.
  2. Click or tap the sender’s email address.
  3. Select Add to VIP or Add to Contacts.

If available, adding theatlantic.com to your contacts will apply to all Atlantic newsletters.

Outlook (Outlook.com and Outlook Desktop)

Option 1: Add The Atlantic to Your Contacts (Recommended)

  1. Open an email from The Atlantic.
  2. Select the sender’s name or email address at the top of the message.
  3. Choose Add to contacts.
  4. Select Save.

You may enter theatlantic.com or newsletters@theatlantic.com as the contact.

Option 2: Add The Atlantic to Safe Senders

Outlook on the web (Outlook.com):

  1. Select Settings (gear icon).
  2. Choose Mail → Junk email.
  3. Under Safe senders and domains, select Add.
  4. Enter theatlantic.com (recommended) or newsletters@theatlantic.com.
  5. Select Save.

Outlook desktop (Windows):

  1. Select Settings (gear icon).
  2. Choose Mail → Junk email.
  3. Select Safe senders and domains.
  4. Choose Add.
  5. Enter theatlantic.com or newsletters@theatlantic.com.
  6. Select Save.

Outlook desktop (macOS):

  1. Select Outlook in the menu bar.
  2. Choose Settings.
  3. Select Junk.
  4. Open Safe Senders.
  5. Add theatlantic.com or newsletters@theatlantic.com.
  6. Close the window to save.

Option 3: Move a Newsletter Out of Junk

If you find a newsletter in your Junk folder:

  1. Open the message.
  2. Select Not junk or Move to Inbox.
  3. Confirm when prompted.

This helps Outlook recognize future emails from The Atlantic as trusted.

Individual Newsletter Sender Addresses 

Some email providers require individual sender addresses to be added. The Atlantic’s newsletters may be sent from the following @theatlantic.com addresses:

  • archives
  • atlantic-intelligence
  • being-human
  • booksbriefing
  • dear.therapist-alert
  • deepshtetl
  • email
  • emailnewsletters
  • galaxybrain
  • htbal
  • inside-the-presidency
  • nat-sec
  • newsletters
  • onestory
  • the-atlantic-am
  • time-travel
  • weeklyplanet
  • wonder

(Each address uses the format: name@theatlantic.com.)

Other Email Providers

If you use another email service (such as Yahoo or a corporate email system), please refer to your provider’s instructions for adding a trusted sender or domain. When possible, we recommend whitelisting theatlantic.com.

If you’re still having trouble receiving newsletters after whitelisting, our support team is happy to help—just contact us through the Help Center.