How to block email from a Webmail address
Are you going to block emails from an address by acting as a Webmail, or from the Web interfaces made available by the various e-mail providers and which are accessible directly from the browser? Then let me tell you how to proceed.
How to block email from an address on Outlook.com
Outlook.com, Microsoft's Webmail service, offers the ability to block mail and easily filter unwanted senders.
To block a contact, log in to the Outlook Webmail service with your Microsoft account data, then locate and click on thee-mail from the sender you want to block. Do, therefore, click destroy on the message in question, select the items Security Options> Block through the opened menu and confirm the block of the selected address by clicking on the button OK.
You want to automatically move unwanted emails to the folder Deleted mail o Junk Mail of your account? No problem: select a message coming from the sender you want to block, click on the button (...) located in the right corner and select the option Create rule give the menu check if you press.
In the next pane, set the folder where you want to move the email (for example Junk Mail o Deleted mail), using the drop-down menu that is shown to you, and click on the button OK but I will complete the operation.
How to block emails from an address on Gmail
Purposes gmail? No problem, even the famous Google Webmail service provides a function to block unwanted senders.
To find out how it works, log into Gmail from its main page, open a message coming from the sender you want to block, click on the icon three vertical dots at the top right, select the item Block [sender] from the opened menu and confirm the operation by clicking on the button Block present in the opened menu.
Alternatively, you can also go to the settings of Gmail (by clicking on thegear located at the top right and selecting the appropriate item from the menu that appears), select the item View all settings and create a new email filtering rule by selecting the tab Filters and blocked addresses from the page that opens and clicking on the item Create a new filter which is located a little further down.
In the box that appears, type theemail address to block in the field Daclick sulla voce Create filter (bottom right), check the box Delete, click on the blue button Crea And that's it.
If you have second thoughts, to go back and unblock one of the previously blocked senders, go back to the menu Settings> View all settings> Filters and blocked addresses Gmail and delete the rule you created earlier.
For more information on how to block an email address on Gmail, consult the guide that I have dedicated entirely to the topic.
How to block emails from an address on Tiscali
Would you block emails from an address on Tiscali? Let me explain how to act in this case too, using the special function included in the service.
First of all, access your mailbox from the main page of Tiscali Mail, click on the icon of thegear (top right) and select the tab filters from the menu that is proposed to you. Now, click on the button Add, indicates theaddress to be locked in the text field that appeared on the screen and save the change made by pressing Submit on the keyboard. Easier than that ?!
In case of second thoughts, go back to the page mentioned above and remove the filter you created, by clicking on the appropriate button attached to it.
How to block emails from an address on Libero
Also on Libero mail it is possible to block messages from a specific address in an extremely simple way, using some functions integrated in the famous Webmail service.
After logging into Libero Mail from its main page, click on the tab Mail (top left), open the message from the address you want to block, click on the item Other (top), select the option Block sender and confirm by clicking on the button Block present in the box that appeared on the screen.
Also on Libero Mail it is possible to create filters: which can be extremely useful for blocking messages from a specific address. To use the function in question, after opening a message from an address that you want to block, open the menu item Other located at the top, select the item Create new filter from the menu that is proposed to you and indicate the name to give to the filter, using the text field New rule.
Then indicate the filter criteria via the section Terms: you can also enter more conditions by clicking on the item Add a condition and selecting what you are interested in including in the filter. Associate the action that the filter must take, after clicking on the item Add an action (Eg. Reject with reason, Move to folder, etc.), and confirm everything by clicking on the button Save, bottom right.
For more information on how to block unwanted emails on Libero, I refer you to reading the guide that I have dedicated entirely to the topic. I really hope it will come in handy.
How to block email from a client address
Now let's see instead how to block email from an address using a client e-mail, that is a program for the management of e-mail of a more classic mold.
How to block emails from an address with Outlook
It was used Microsoft Outlook and you want block emails from an address, all you have to do is take advantage of the special function included in the program.
After opening Outlook and identifying one of the emails from the address you want to block, all you have to do is click with the right mouse button on it and select items Junk> Block Sender from the menu that opens. Alternatively, after selecting the message of your interest, go to the tab Homeclick on your button (...) (top right), select the item Junk Mail from the menu that is proposed to you and choose the option Block sender.
If desired, Outlook also allows you to create rules specific about receiving messages. To do this, go to the tab Home program, click the button (...) collocato in alto a destra, selects the voice Regole, click on the wording Create rule ... in the opened menu and put the check mark on the rule of your interest, selecting those placed in the sections Upon receipt of messages that meet all the selected conditions (Eg. From [address]) ed Take the following action (Eg. Move item to Junk folder).
In case of second thoughts, you can unblock previously blocked sender addresses in Outlook by going to the menu Home> (…)> Junk> Junk Email Options, selecting the scheda Blocked senders, selecting the address to unlock and pressing the button Remove which is on the right.
How to block email from an address with Windows 10 Mail
Windows 10 Mail, the e-mail client integrated in the famous Microsoft operating system, is the program you use to manage e-mail and would you like to know how to use it for the purpose in question? I'm sorry, but at the time of writing the application in question does not offer a feature that allows you to block emails from a certain address.
The only thing you can do is set up rules in the web panels of the mail accounts that you have configured in the Microsoft client, as indicated in the previous section of the tutorial.
How to block email from one address with Mozilla Thunderbird
If you wish to find out how to block email from an address and use the free client Mozilla Thunderbird, you have to configure special filters capable of "suppressing" the emails received from unwanted senders as soon as they are downloaded to the PC.
Then start the program and select the items Tools> Message Filters from the menu that opens by clicking on the button (≡) at the top right. In the window that is proposed to you, make sure that the your e-mail address in the drop-down menu Filters for e pulsing sul pulsating New, to start creating your filter.
Then assign a name to filter, select the option They meet all the conditions, set the item Sender in the first drop-down menu, the option è in the second drop-down menu and type theemail address to block in the adjacent text field (if you mean block emails from a specific domain, you must select the wording contains from the appropriate drop-down menu and indicate only the name of the provider, for example @provider.dominio).
Next, choose your options Move the message to e [Tuo indirizzo email> Posta indesiderata] from the drop-down menus found under the item Perform these actions and click on the button OK to save the changes. If you want, by clicking on the button +, you can add other addresses to block within the same rule.
If you change your mind, you can remove an address from the blocked senders list by returning to the menu (≡)> Tools> Message Filters Thunderbird by selecting your rule and deleting it (or removing the desired address from it).
How to block email from an address with Apple Mail
Also Apple Mail, the default mail client of Macs, allows you to block emails from unwanted senders in a very simple way.
All you have to do is go to the menu Mail> Preferences located at the top left, select the tab Regole from the window that opens and press the button Add. In the next window, type the name you want to give the rule in the field Description and imposta l'opzione all occur in the drop-down menu located between the item Se and the wording conditions below.
After that, set the drop-down menus in the first blue row to Da e it's the same as, type l 'email address to block in the adjacent text field and, if necessary, repeat the operation for other addresses to be blocked (by pressing the button +).
After this step too, set the drop-down menus of the second blue line to Move message e Junk Mail and click on the button OK per salvare i Cambiomenti.
If necessary, you can retrace your steps and remove an address from blocked senders simply by opening the menu Mail> Preferences> Rules and deleting the rule you created earlier (or removing the address you want to unblock from it).
How to block email from an address
