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This page gives instructions on installing how to export your email addresses from Outlook into a text file, which can be used as a whitelist for SpamPal. You can also go to the third party extras page here and download the Export Outlook contacts utility to do the same job

1. Export Contacts

Go to File, Import and Export:

Now, select the Export to a file option:

You will now be asked to select the Output type, which is Tab Separated Values (Windows) and then click Next:

In order to extract the email address from your contacts, you must select the Contacts folder and then click Next:

Note: Advanced: Extract Email Addresses from Other folders

Although these instructions are for extracting addresses from your Contacts folder only, you can at this stage, select another folder, for example, your Sent Items folder and extract all the addresses you have sent emails To:

Note that the fieldnames you have to select, will be different, depending on which folder you have selected, e.g.. If you selected the Sent Items folder, you will have to extract the To: field. The other thing to watch is that when you select a folder other than the Contacts folder, you will end up with duplicate email addresses, which you will have to sort though.

Now set the location of where you want your email addresses to be exported to, for example, c:\whitelist.txt and then click Next:

You should now see the following screen, so now, click Map Custom Fields

You should now see the following screen, so now, click Clear Map, which will clear the right hand section of the box:

Now, drag and drop the left hand field E-mail Address to the right hand side, so that the screen looks like this:

Now Click OK, which will take you back to the main actions screen (seen in the screenshot below)

Finally, click Finish to start exporting your emails addresses

Your Outlook email addresses will now be exported, to a file, for example: c:\whitelist.txt

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2. Import Contacts into SpamPal's Whitelist

Once this had been completed, open Notepad and load the c:\whitelist.txt file, which should contain a list
of all your recently exported email addresses.

You now have to select all the email addresses that you want to whitelist (Ctrl-A) and Copy them all to the clipboard (Ctrl-C)

You should now, go into the SpamPal options screen and select the Whitelisted Email Addresses pane,
as seen in the screenshot below:

Now, Paste your email addresses from the clipboard (Ctrl-V) into the windows and click Apply.

You should now have whitelisted all your main Outlook Contacts

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