Email is a powerful tool in the modern world. It is used not only for professional correspondence, but also for a variety of other purposes, including messages from your school or university, keeping in touch with distant friends or family, sending digital files, or just generally keeping track of your online accounts and purchases. But the ease of sending email and the fact that many people have more than one email address means that your inbox can quickly fill up with spam.
Although you can unsubscribe from Google’s mailing list, you may still receive unsolicited emails. Gmail users who want to turn off this noise can do so with just a few clicks. Here’s how to block an email address on Gmail.
Blocking a specific email address through Gmail means that you will no longer receive messages from that account in your inbox. It’s all or nothing. If you want to receive certain messages from that address but not others, you’ll have to put up with deleting a few emails every now and then.
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If you are on a computer
If you’re on a computer, the process is pretty simple.
Step 1: Go to your Gmail inbox and open the email from the sender you want to block.
Step 2: In the upper right corner of the email — on the same horizontal plane as the sender’s name and address — is an icon made up of three vertically stacked dots. Choose Dots icon to open the drop-down menu.
Step 3: Select from this menu Block [sender’s name]which should appear near the middle of the list.
It’s that simple! Now any messages you receive from that address will be automatically directed to your spam folder.
If you are on a smartphone
The process works the same on smartphones, although the interface looks a little different.
Step 1: Open the email from the sender you want to block.
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Step 2: In the top right corner of the message (not the app itself), there will be a button marked with three vertical dots (horizontal dots if you’re on iOS). This button is also on the same horizontal plane as the email sender’s name. Choose Dots icon to open the drop-down menu.
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Step 3: Choose Block [sender’s name]. Now you will no longer receive messages from that email address.
When unsubscribing from mailing lists isn’t enough, blocking is a great way to reduce the amount of spam in your inbox.
Unblock users
You’ll use the same drop-down menu you used to block someone as you used to unblock them.
Step 1: Choose Unblock [sender’s name] option from any interface. Both interfaces also have a dark gray banner at the top of an email that has arrived from a blocked sender. You can choose Unblock the sender button on this banner to unblock that address as well.
Step 2: In your Gmail settings, you can find all the addresses you have blocked by going to Filters and blocked addresses.
If you receive emails from other Gmail accounts that contain threatening or harassing content, you should be aware that such emails are a violation of the Gmail Program Policies and may also be in violation of cyber-harassment laws.
Not only should you block these email addresses, but you should also file a harassment report with the police and ask for more information about your city’s cybersecurity laws.
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