Why are Ovida's emails to me being blocked?
Email is central to your identity in most software products. Your email address is your source of identity, the way you log in, and the way we communicate with you. Because email is also a conduit for viruses, phishing and other malicious behaviour, all email providers have built in filters to detect and block potentially malicious content. Those filters can sometimes incorrectly block innocent emails. This happens to our emails to users from time to time.
What can I do to fix it?
Step 1: add us to your contacts in your email application
Add our email as contacts. This signals to your filters that we are a known entity, and reduces the chance of our emails being blocked. You should add:
Step 2: look for our email in junk or spam
If you are using Gmail, look in your spam folder, and if you find an email from us, select it, and mark it as "not spam" or "not phishing". To find the latest info, google "mark as not spam in gmail".
If you are using MS Outlook or Office365, look in your junk folder, and mark the email as "not junk". To find the latest info, google "mark as not junk in outlook".
Step 3: Ask your IT department to whitelist Ovida
We subscribe to the highest security standards, and are whitelisted by Fortune 100 companies. Share this information with your IT department, and they should whitelist us.
For Outlook or Microsoft Office: Depending on your corporate email settings, you may be able to remove email from quarantine in windows defender. To find out more, google "remove email from quarantine in windows defender as user". If this doesn't work, you should contact your IT admin, and ask them to whitelist emails from the ovida.org and ovida.ai domains.
For Google Workspace: If you cannot find the email in your spam folder, it's been blocked at an admin level, and you will need to contact your IT admin and ask them to whitelist the ovida.org and ovida.io domains.
Step 4: contact us
If you still cannot get your email invite, please send us an email on support@ovida.org, and we will help you get set up.
What is Ovida doing to solve this?
We are constantly working to ensure that we adhere to the highest standards of email hygiene, and we maintain an exceptionally high email sender rating. We can't, however, influence the setup on your email provider's filters, so we may need your help to unblock emails we send to you.