Email remains to be one of the most favored means of communication. Unfortunately, despite the rising need in ensuring online safety and data security, it’s hard to keep our personal email addresses confidential. From time to time, we receive unexpected or unwanted emails, wondering how did they even acquire it in the first place.

4 Ways To Stop Receiving Emails From A Specific Email Address

If you’re tired of receiving unsolicited, irrelevant, or spam email messages, you might want to try any, or all, of these techniques we’re going to share with you.

Block Sender Option

Utilizing the built-in “block sender” option of your email provider is probably the most basic step. Through this feature, you can block an email address from reaching your inbox. 

You have to be privy, however, to how this option works on your email provider. While most completely block senders, some offer less serious blocking features. This specific button could be programmed to only block the sender from reaching your primary inbox, and reroutes the message to your junk, trash, or spam folder.

Spam Reporting Feature

Another way to go about this is to mark the message as spam. Feel free to utilize the built-in spam filters of your email provider. They use algorithms to detect unwanted messages or suspicious senders so that the email gets deleted even before it reaches your inbox.

Additionally, you can always report spam messages by simply clicking on the Report Spam & Unsubscribe button. This is especially useful if you are receiving several phishing emails in your inbox. 

Unsubscribe Button

If for some reason, your email address ends up in the hands of marketers, mass emails containing sales pitches will surely flood your inbox. Be at ease though, as there’s a way out of these. You can always block or unsubscribe from their messages by clicking on the button or link that’s usually located at the bottom part of every email they send. 

Be careful, however, as sometimes, this “unsubscribe” button is a spammer’s twisted way of confirming that the email address is, indeed, active.

Blacklist Settings

An email blacklist is a database of specific email addresses or domains that are tagged as spammers, fraudsters, suspicious, and the like. Hence, when you set a sender to be blacklisted, there’s usually no way for them to bypass it.

‘Block Sender’ Option: The Step-by-Step Procedures Per Email Provider

We’ll walk you through how to go about blocking an email address depending on your email provider. If yours is not on the list or doesn’t apply to your situation, you will probably find similar steps or settings.

Google Mail (Gmail)

• Once logged in, open the email of the sender you wish to block.
• On the top-right corner, click on the More Menu icon (the 3 vertical dots). 
• Choose the Block “<sender name>” from the drop-down menu.

Microsoft Outlook

• Open an email from the sender you want to block.
• Right-click anywhere in the email.
• From the drop-down menu, choose Junk.
• Click Block Sender.

Yahoo! Mail

There are two ways to stop receiving a message from the sender you wish to block.

• Via an Existing Message
  • Open an existing message, then right-click on it.
  • Select Block senders.
  • Choose the email address(es) you want to block.
  • You may also select Block all future emails and/or Delete all existing emails.

• Via the Settings Menu
  • Navigate to the Yahoo Settings page once logged in.
  • Select More Settings from the drop-down menu.
  • Choose the Security and Privacy option from the left pane.
  • Click on Blocked Addresses.
  • Lodged the email address under the Add an address field.

iCloud Mail 

You can block an email address by forwarding the message to spam@icloud.com, or you could follow these steps:

• Navigate to your iCloud Mail inbox.
• Click the Settings Gear icon located in the sidebar.
• Choose the Rules option.
• Select Add a Rule.
• Specify your desired filtering conditions.
• Click Done to activate.

AOL Mail

• Once logged in, click on your username.
• Select Options. 
• Navigate to the Mail Settings.
• Click the Spam Settings tab.
• Lodge the email address or the username you wish to block.
• Click on the Plus icon, then Save.

ProtonMail 

• Login to your ProtonMail inbox.
• In the top banner, click on the Settings option.
• In the left panel, select Filters.
• In the Blacklist field, type the email address you want to block.
• Click the Save button.

If all else fails and the blocked addresses seem to manage a way around your settings and precautions, you can always seek help from your email provider service or experts online. If the emails are to the point of harassment, threats, or criminal intent, there are cyber harassment laws in place that are meant to protect users like you.