Unsolicited emails or spam emails are big annoyances to email users in the world. In case if your email address falls into the wrong hands, it can be sold and resold to many marketers in the world who tend to flood email addresses with various different kinds of ads, irrelevant requests for money, product review and other types of spam. It can be vary irritating for email users. Most E-mail accounts come with an automatic junk mail filter, but even these don't catch all kinds of unsolicited emails. Thats why you need to manually block unwanted emails.
How to Block Unwanted Emails:
Do you want to block unwanted emails which came everyday in your inbox? Do you want to block newsletters or offers that reach your inbox everyday? Well, here is the solution for it, In this post, I will show you a trick or way using which you can block individual email address.
Steps to Block Unwanted Emails :
Here is a list of steps that you need to follow to block unwanted emails. Every email account have different different type of setting so bellow I have written steps for each individual service provider:
Steps to Block Unwanted Emails In Gmail :
Step 1: First log in to your Gmail account.
Step 2: After login, goto inbox and at the top-right corner, click on Setting.
Step 3: Under Setting click on Filters Tab.
Step 4: Now click on "Create a new filter" option.
Step 5: Now in the From field, enter the email address from which you do not want to receive the emails.
For example : you may enter abc@gmail.com in the “From:” field to block all incoming emails from this address.
Note : However, if you want to block the whole domain, then use the following syntax: *@gmail.com. Now, all the incoming emails from the domain “gmail.com” will be blocked.
Step 6: Click on Next Step, select the action you’d like to take on the blocked emails. You may select the option Delete it so that the blocked email is moved to trash. In case if you would like to unblock those emails, all you need to do is just delete the filter that you’ve created.
Steps to Block Unwanted Email in Yahoo :
Step 1: First log in to your yahoo account.
Step 2: After login, goto inbox and at the top-right corner, click on Options, After that drop down menu will get appears, now click on More options.
Step 3: Now in the left panel select the option Filters and click on create or edit filters.
Step 4: Now click on Add option.
Step 5: In the next screen, give a name to your filter and in the From header field enter the email address that you want to block.
Fox example : abc@yahoo.com or if you want to block an entire domain then just enter @yahoo.com. Don’t enter *@yahoo.com. Select the option Move the message to: Trash and click on Save Changes.
Steps to Block Unwanted Emails in Hotmail :
Step 1: First log in to your hotmail account.
Step 2: After login, goto inbox and at the top-right corner, click on Option.
Step 3: After clicked on Option, a drop down menu will get appears, now click on More options.
Step 4: Now click on Safe and blocked senders link under Junk e-mail.
Step 5: Now click on Blocked senders and type in the email address that you want to block under blocked e-mail address or domain field.
For example : Enter abc@hotmail.com to block the individual email address or just enter hotmail.com to block the entire domain.
That’s it.
Now you no longer receive those such annoying and irritating emails in your account inbox. I hope this post will helps to block unwanted emails.