How to Block Unwanted Emails

Submitted by Srikanth on Friday, 12 March 201016 Comments

Do you want to block emails from your ex wife/husband? Do you want to block those annoying offers and newsletters that reach your inbox? Well here is a way to block all those unwanted and annoying emails that you do not want to see or read! With this trick you can block individual email address or the whole domain from which you do not want the emails to come from. Here are the step-by-step instructions to do this.

For Gmail

1. Login to your account

2. At the top-right corner, click on Settings

3. Under Settings, click on Filters

4. You’ll now see an option “Create a new filter“, click on it

5. Now in the From field enter the email address from which you do not want to receive the emails

For ex. you may enter john@gmail .com in the From field to block all incoming emails from this address. However if you want to block the whole domain then use the following syntax: *@xyz.com. Now all the incoming emails from the domain xyz.com will be blocked.

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. To unblock the email, all you need to do is just delete the filter that you’ve created.

For Yahoo

1. Login to your account

2. At the top-right corner, click on Options

3. A drop down menu appears, now click on More options

4. In the left panel select the option Filters and click on create or edit filters

5. Now click on Add

6. 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 ex. john@gmail.com or if you want to block an entire domain then just enter @xyz.com. Dont enter *@xyz.com. Select the option Move the message to: Trash and click on Save Changes.

For Hotmail

1. Login to your account

2. At the top-right corner, click on Options

3. A drop down menu appears, now click on More options

4. Click on Safe and blocked senders link under Junk e-mail

5. Now click on Blocked senders

6. Type in the email address that you want to block under blocked e-mail address or domain field.

For ex. Enter john@yahoo.com to block the individual email address or just enter xyz.com to block the entire domain.

That’s it. You no longer receive those annoying emails in your inbox. Keep your inbox clean and tidy. I hope this post helps. pass your comments!

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16 Comments »

Giri said:

Thanks for the tip

- 12 March 2010 at 10:02 PM

abhix said:

Is it work for all the ‘wild card’( i.e ? and *) words ! !
PLZ REPLY ME THE ANSWER THAT I HAVE POSTED THROUGH ”CONTACT OPTION ” !!:-l

- 13 March 2010 at 12:16 AM

Karan Kapoor said:

Extremely Good Srikanth . It is very knowledgable. Thanks!!!!!

- 13 March 2010 at 2:15 PM

Computricks said:

Amazing trick, thanks for sharing Srikanth.

- 14 March 2010 at 8:29 PM

mohammed umar sheriff said:

thanks for the tip..but i guess its a it basic and does’nt come under hacking…also could u pls explain me the logic for constructing a su-do-ku program using c

- 15 March 2010 at 2:02 PM

Fahim Reza Badhon said:

thanks boss !!! Nice work

- 19 March 2010 at 12:34 AM

bina said:

nice posting.
i like it..

- 20 March 2010 at 4:05 PM

Sam said:

Very precise instructions thanks. You are so knowledgeable. Any tips on Facebook hack

- 27 March 2010 at 12:15 AM

teja said:

this tip is very cool… i used 2 receive many unwanted mails . Thanks for the tip

- 28 March 2010 at 6:47 PM

Kiran said:

It’s nice!!!

- 1 April 2010 at 2:12 PM

Me said:

Awesome! Thanks!

- 17 April 2010 at 3:33 AM

me said:

its nice…thanx for tip

- 27 April 2010 at 12:12 PM

yuvi said:

it’s good step to blocking unwanted emails.

- 8 May 2010 at 11:31 AM

rd said:

since u guys have solution for anythng and everythng …please tell me how can we get materials which is locked with a software..i have a lock software called ” instant lock ” . now when i tried to unlock it it shows me to register online..i tried some crack code but they caught it …now they are telling me to buy the software or i am going to loose the whole data…please sir help me out …

- 12 May 2010 at 1:42 PM

nithin said:

thanku very much for u r help….

- 17 May 2010 at 1:25 PM

Srikanth (author) said:

@ rd

Just format your harddrive (reinstall your windows OS). Once the lock software is wiped out, you can have access to your files back. However make sure that the locked files are not in the same drive in which your OS is installed.

- 29 May 2010 at 7:03 PM