How do I block emails?

MILLIONS of consumers are wasting time and energy dealing with nuisance spam and other emails clogging up their inbox.

But there are ways to stop receiving nuisance emails and be less likely to fall victim to a phishing scam.

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Sometimes you may receive emails that you may wish to block[/caption]

How do I block emails?

There are a number of different email providers you can be signed up to – so here’s a look at how to block emails on each of the main domains.

Gmail

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Blocking emails is done differently depending on your email provider[/caption]

• Go to Gmail on your computer or via the mobile phone app
• Open a message sent from the email address you wish to block
• In the top right-hand corner, click More
• Click Block [sender]
• Their messages will then go straight into your Spam folder
• You can unblock the sender’s messages by following the same steps from the Spam folder.

Outlook

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Blocking emails will stop emails from a specific sender dropping into your inbox[/caption]

• In your Outlook inbox, select the messages or senders you wish to block
• From the toolbar at the top, click Junk, and then Block – or Spam, and then Block
• Click OK
• The messages you select will be deleted and all future messages will be blocked from your mailbox.

Yahoo

• Open an email, or select it in your Yahoo mailbox
• Click the More icon, and then click Block Sender
• You can also choose to delete all emails you’ve received from the sender
• Click OK.

iCloud Mail

• Open the Mail app on your device
• Open the email, and then tap the name of the sender in the top left-hand corner
• The From field should show the sender’s name in blue
• Tap this to open the sender’s contact sheet
• On the list of options tap Block This Contact once, and then again to confirm
• Emails from this sender will now go straight to the Bin folder.

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Block any sender to stop their emails going in to your inbox[/caption]

What does blocking emails do?

Blocking emails will stop a sender’s email from dropping into your inbox.

Depending on which email provider you use, the unwanted emails will either be diverted into your Spam folder or be automatically deleted.

If an email from a blocked sender still appears in your inbox, the sender might have changed their email address.

To combat this, you can use the Settings menu to look out for common words in your inbox email, and dump them straight into the Deleted items folder.

Users will not be notified that they have been blocked. This is particularly useful when ghosting someone.

If you’re trying to stop spam, IT experts say it can be more effective to report them as spam in your email client, so they can be forcibly stopped from sending nuisance emails.