How to block an email address on Gmail

After chatting live, you gave your Gmail e-mail address to someone you met for a short time, to allow them to send you the files you needed; this person, however, turned out to be a serial spammer, ready to clog your inbox with messages related to events that, frankly, you really don’t care much about. This is the reason why, tired of the situation, you are looking for a method to block this person and you asked Google for information about it, ending up on this guide of mine.

Well, I want to tell you right away that you’ve come to the right place, at the right time: by following the instructions that I am going to give you to the letter, in fact, you will learn how to block an email address on Gmail in no time, by acting from the Web, by most popular e-mail clients for computers and also from smartphones and tablets. These are extremely simple procedures and truly within everyone’s reach:! Even for those who, like you, have never had an excellent relationship with the world of technology.

So what else are you waiting for to get started? Take some free time, make yourself comfortable and read very carefully everything I have to explain to you on this topic: I guarantee you that, after reading my guide, unwanted spammers and promoters will only remain a bad memory for you. Ready to get started? OK let’s go!

Index

• Block email addresses on Gmail from the web
• Block email addresses on Gmail from client
  • Outlook
  • Mail (Windows 10)
  • Thunderbird
  • Mail (macOS)
• Block email addresses on Gmail from smartphones and tablets

Block email addresses on Gmail from the web

The Web version of Gmail, the one accessible through any computer browser, has a very simple sender blocking feature that can be activated in just a couple of clicks.

How? I’ll explain it to you right away: first of all, connected to the main Gmail page, enter the email address and password you usually use to access the service and, once the inbox has been loaded, open any of the messages received from the contact that you intend to block.

Once this is done, presses the button (⋮ ) located to the right of the box dedicated to the message, next to the Forward button  (on the same line in which the date of receipt of the same is specified, so to speak) and, in the menu that opens, presses on the Block NomeSender item and confirm the willingness to proceed by clicking on the Block button again.

To unblock a blocked address, again from the main Gmail page, you must instead click on the ⚙  icon located at the top right, choose the Settings item and then go to the Filters and blocked addresses tab. Once inside, identify the sender to unblock in the box dedicated to blocked addresses and click on the corresponding unblock item.

Block email addresses on Gmail from client

You don’t rely on the web version of Google’s email service, but have you set up the account in your favorite email program? Then this is the section for you: below I intend to explain how to block email addresses on Gmail from the most popular email clients. Keep in mind that the operation can be replicated in a very similar way on other programs not present in this guide.

Outlook (Windows / macOS)

After following my guide on how to configure Outlook with Gmail, you were able to happily consult your e-mail using the program included in the Microsoft Office suite and now, to keep your mailbox clean, you have every intention of blocking the addresses you feel inappropriate, avoiding receiving unwelcome messages from them.

Doing it is really simple: after starting Outlook, open the Inbox folder and identify, on the left side of the program, the preview of any of the messages received by the “offending” sender. At this point, right-click on the preview in question, click on the item Junk mail.  from the menu that opens, repeat the operation for the Block sender item and press the OK button to complete the procedure.

If you need to unlock a previously blocked account, click on the Home tab located at the top of the program screen, then on the Indesid Mail button. and, again, on the item  Junk e-mail options … placed in the menu that opens. Once this is done, click on the item  Blocked senders, select the address you want to unblock and then press the Remove and  OK buttons.

Mail (Windows 10)

If you consult Google’s e-mail through the Windows 10 Mail program, then this is the section for you: you can block an unwelcome sender (and the messages coming from it), even in this case, within a couple of clicks.

To begin with, start the program and click on the  Inbox associated with your Gmail account,  right-click on the preview of one of the messages received from the address you want to block and select the item Move to junk mail located in the menu that you want to block.  open: in this way, the message is immediately moved to the above-mentioned folder and the sender’s address blocked.

Thunderbird (Windows / macOS / Linux)

If you intend to block an email address in Gmail and consult your email via the Mozilla Thunderbird client, you need to set up filters so that messages from that address are deleted as soon as they are downloaded to your computer.

To do this, start the program, click on the ☰ icon located at the top right and select the items  Message Filters> Message Filters from the menu that opens. Once in the new window, make sure that your Gmail address is specified in the Filters for drop-down menu and start creating a  New filter by clicking on the appropriate button.

At this point, indicate the Name of the filter you are about to create (eg. Senders block ) in the appropriate text box, select the option  Meet all the conditions, choose the Sender item in the first drop-down menu, enter the item is in the second drop-down menu and, in the text field immediately next to it, type the email to be blocked. If you wish, you can add further senders by clicking on the [+] button immediately adjacent to the field just filled in.

Finally, choose the options  Move the message to and  Unwanted on [your Gmail address] and confirm the activation of the rule by pressing the OK button: that’s it! If you had to think again, you can unblock blocked senders by going back to the Message Filters section and deleting the rule created, or by deleting the address you are interested in unblocking from those specified within the rule itself.

Mail (macOS)

Have you configured your Google account on  Mail, the default Mac email client, so you would like to know if it is possible to block email addresses on Gmail on this program too? Of course yes! All this leads to the creation of a special rule that immediately moves the messages received from a certain sender into the Junk Mail folder.

How? Very simple: first of all, click on the Mail menu located at the top left, select the Preferences item and click on the Rules tab resident in the window that opens. Once this is done, press the Add button, indicate the name you want to assign to the rule (eg.  Block senders ) in the Description field and set the drop-down menu next to the item  If all the following conditions occur on the option.

At this point, move to the drop-down menus immediately below and set the first from the left to the From item, the second to the item is equal to  and type the e-mail address to be blocked in the adjacent text box. If necessary, you can carry out the same operation for multiple senders, by pressing the (+) button located immediately next to the text box in which you indicated the “offending” email.

Once this is done, move to the second block of the drop-down menu, setting the first from the left to  Move message and the second to  Unwanted; finally, click on the OK button to save the changes: starting from this moment, all messages from the senders indicated will be immediately redirected to the Junk Mail folder.

Note: should it prove necessary, you can unblock senders simply by returning to the Rules section and deleting the newly created rule (or, alternatively, by deleting the address you are interested in blocking from the list).

Block email addresses on Gmail from smartphones and tablets

Didn’t you find the tips explained in this guide of interest to you, since you access your email mainly through the Gmail app for Android and iOS? Don’t worry, you can block email addresses in Gmail very easily.

First, start the app by recalling it from the drawer of the Android device or from the iOS Home screen, open an e-mail message received from the contact you want to block and press the button (⋮), the one located next to the Reply button: to this period, all you have to do is tap on  Block [sender name] to stop receiving messages from the contact in question.

At this point, you are aware of the simplest and most effective techniques for blocking email addresses on Gmail, so this topic should no longer be taboo for you. If you want to know the techniques to do the same for other email providers, such as  Outlook.com, iCloud, Yahoo Mail and so on, I suggest you take a look at my tutorial on how to block unwanted emails: you will surely find this what are you looking for!