Thursday 20 June 2013

Block Unwanted Emails from Your Account:

For Gmail:

Here is how you can block emails for Gmail:
  1. Log in 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. In case if you would like to unblock those emails, all you need to do is just delete the filter that you’ve created.

For Yahoo:

Here is how you can block unwanted emails for Yahoo:

  1. Log in 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. Don’t enter *@xyz.com. Select the option Move the message to: Trash and click on Save Changes.

For Hotmail:

Here is how to do the same for Hotmail:
  1. Log in 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.

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