2nd Test on Class Creator Emails
Helena63.com & Class Creator software provider
The purpose of the Newsletter is to set the stage for the email test of Helena63.com tomorrow Thursday, November 25, 2025.
On the Thursday I am sending you a class email. I am assuming that if you were having problems with Helena63.com that you have implemented the whitelisted Class Creator email and/or added Gmail account to your Helena63 profile that was described in my last Newsletter. If you had problems with your email and did not implement my recommendations. Your email probably will not work this time. If you received this email, it means that Class Creator email is working for you. You can stop reading this email now. If you did not receive the class email, the only working email service I know is Gmail. I switched my logon ID in Class Creator to Gmail, and it works for me. Exhibit II shows that 48 classmates use Gmail. Based my experience with Gmail, Helena63 should be working for you.
Exhibit I shows the emails servers associated with our class. I know that for our site msn.com (Microsoft) that uses Outlook at its email provider does not work today. The original Hotmail was moved to Outlook, but I see some comments about not being kept current. This would be a candidate for upgrading to a newer email service like Gmail. I do not know if the rest of email websites are working or not. The email providers today are working on minimizing spam and scam emails being sent by bulk emailers. They send the emails to junk. They look at senders who are sending emails with bad addresses and blocking them. Class Creator has these problems because of the number of the schools that they support, and the large changes that yield bad classmates’ addresses causing them to block email addresses. By whitelisting class creator, we are trying to tell do not block this email address. This does not always work but it is worth trying.
Classmates Whitelisting their Class Creator emails on their devices
Whitelisting is telling your email server to let this email come to your email box. You should make sure that you have declared Class Creator emails as “not junk” and put the Class Creator email address in your contact list. See that Class Creator addresses resides in all the devices where you get email. I have included a tutorial on some of the email providers and how to whitelist our Class Creator address:
How to Whitelist an Email in Gmail, Outlook, and Yahoo
Learn how to whitelist an email in Gmail and other mail providers, so that important emails always reach your inbox. Then enhance your mailbox with Clean Email.
If clicking on this website listed above does not take you to the site, copy and paste the above address in your browser address box and hit enter.
Adding An Additional Email Address That the Email Server Does Not Block
Most of our blocked email is coming from the email service provider. Their filters determine Class Creator is Scam or Spam. You and I cannot fix this problem. However, you can create an alternate email address and put it into your profile. When you put an additional email address into Class Creator, the email system will send you emails to both addresses. In my case my Microsoft does not get our email, but my alternate address using Gmail does get the email. I also installed the Gmail APP on my phone so I can see if I get new emails. If you want to be more sophisticated, many of the email systems can forward emails to your other email address.
Here is how you add an alternate email address to your account.
1. Go to Gmail.com and create a new account.
2. Log onto Helena63.com
3. Click on the icon of the half person in upper right corner of the home screen
4. Click on edit Contact info
5. Add your new email address to the Alternate Email located under your primary address.
6. Install Gmail App on your phone and move the Gmail App near to the same icon where next to normal email App. If your Gmail gets new email, you see number on your Gmail icon.
I am now more optimistic that Class Creator is going to fix this email problem. How long it will take them is anybody’s guess. Jessica from Class Creators says that they are working on a new update to the email servers to be delivered in the next few weeks. This is discussed in Exhibit II and is encouraging.
In trying to solve this problem for our class, I asked myself about how long I have had my current email provider. For me, it has been over 20 years. Is it time for change? As I mentioned above 48 of our users are Gmail. If you decide it is time to change, start small like adding the Gmail as alternate to Helena63, then start adding a few people at time to see if you like Gmail. If you want to be more sophisticated and your email provider supports it, you can have one email system forward your email to another of your email addresses. It is just a thought.
MY Plan of Action Is to make Class Creator email work
I sent this newsletter on the Wednesday night. On Thursday I will send you the Helena63 class letter. Sometimes class emails do not get delivered immediately. You should wait a day to see if you received the Class Creator email. In my tests my email came a lot faster than a day later. If you did not receive the email and are willing to implement changes in your email, you need to call, email, or text me with your availability. If you have a Gmail account and it is not working, you need to call me as well. My cell phone number 801-599-8220. You can call or text or email me. Depending on how many people are not working, I may have to create a schedule so I can work with you individually.
My expectation is to get the Class Emails and Notifications working or use the Newsletter service allowing us to have a great mini-reunion next year.
If you have questions or ideas to make this process better, let me know.
Jack Holt
Exhibit I
Current Email Servers Used By Our Classmates
Mail Receiving Sites No. of Classmates
gmail.com 48
hotmail.co 10
bresnan.net 8
yahoo 8
msn.com 7
comcast.net 4
aol.com 3
charter.net 3
cox.net 3
icloud.com 2
mac.com 2
mt.net 2
bgriffing.com 1
cableone.net 1
clarkforkrealty.com 1
efn.org 1
frontiernet.net 1
gunderson.net 1
in-tch.com 1
latusracing.com 1
live.com 1
me.com 1
outlook.com 1
sbcglobal.net 1
telus.net 1
verizon.net 1
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Total 114
Exhibit II
Class Creators Response To My Questions
Monday, September 1, 2025 at 7:06 PM - Response #7
Hi Jack,
1. If all goes well we will be launching it within the next few weeks.
2. Yes we send duplicates if they add an alternate email address. Gmail is free and Google is committed to keeping it updated so yes I would recommend gmail in general.
3. Hotmail appears to be sporadic for some and not delivering or bouncing for others. Microsoft stopped supporting that product in 2012 and they may be using it as a testing ground for some of their new filters. They don't always provide bounces and there is no postmaster to report it to so we can't ask them why they aren't bouncing.
Bounce reporting should improve in general based on the tests we have been running on the new set up.
Our email system is not a full contact management system with delivery/bounce data for each address. It would require a lot of additional overhead and would impact our ability to offer email as part of the system package. If you see a bounce in your external email system I would clean it up in this system as well during this update process.
4. Only platinum email would need to add other addresses as they would also have a noreply@theirdomain.com to add. Your class would not need to add anything else.
5. Hotmail is the only one that we are hearing consistent issues with at the moment.
Best thing you can do is have them whitelist if they can. Most email clients allow you to add noreply@classcreator.net to contacts where as others will have a separate area to add whitelisting. I don't have information on every email provider. There are sites like this one that outlines many of the common providers
How to Whitelist an Email in Gmail, Outlook, and Yahoo
Learn how to whitelist an email in Gmail and other mail providers, so that important emails always reach your inbox. Then enhance your mailbox with Clean Email.
Jessica
Class Creator Support