"john.doe 333-444-5555"@myvoicemailsystem.com

so I needed to whitelist the entire domain.

While gmail doesn’t have a specific “whitelist” feature, turns out this is pretty easily accomplished with “filters”. Here’s how:

1. Log into gmail, click ’settings’
2. Click ‘Filters’
3. Click ‘Create a New Filter’
4. In the “From” field enter the domain you want to whitelist, ie. ’somedomain.com’
5. Click ‘Next Step’, then tick the ‘Never send it to Spam’ box.
6. Click ‘Create Filter’ and your done.

That wasn’t so bad. Anything sent from ’somedomain.com’ now show up in your inbox rather than disappearing onto the great SPAM abyss.

Gmail Down - 502 error message

Well, it looks like I really can’t blame this on a flaky WIFI connection at the coffee shop. Gmail is returning a 502 error. In other words, gmail is down. Looks like I’m not the only one. There’s some chatter HERE on google groups.

So, what exactly causes a 502 error?  The folks at checkupdown.com have a nice explanation here.  They suggest cleaning out your browser cache, but it looks like this is beyond that.  We’ve tried from an ISP in NY and one in the Midwest.  If you’re not logged in to your account it will authenticate you.  The error occurs after authentication.  Curious.

Update – Looks like they’ve excercised their demons (or restarted their daemons).  After almost an hour gmail is back.