Are you getting emails from someone you’d rather not receive emails from? Well, you could mark one message as spam, and then everything else from that sender would be forever placed in your spam folder, out of sight and out of mind. But then, you’d either have to wait for Google to clean your spam folder periodically – at whatever interval they decide – or you’d have to manually clean your spam folder whenever.
Here’s a way to block a sender and have the email sent right to trash – out of sight, out of mind, forever. Gone forever too.
1. In Gmail, click the “Create a filter” link near the top of any Gmail mailbox.
2. Type the email address you want to block under From:.
3. Examples: If you want to block emails from an entire domain, you can do that too. If you wanted to block a message from hirohiro@youbetchacom, you’d enter that. If you wanted to block all mail from youbetcha.com, you’d enter “@youbetcha.com”. If you want to block several different email addresses in one entry, separate them with a | (the pipe, or vertical bar, normally located above the backslash on the keyboard).
Gmail is one of my email addresses. I generally get spam from several of the same people or websites, although occasionally a new one pops up. This is a great tip! I can eliminate the spam quickly, once and for all, and with less/no hassle on my part. Thanks for all you both to do to educate and help us!
creating filters got more and more annoying to me, honestly. as a friend told me about it, I decided to try Blocksender too. it’s amazing, as you don’t have to keep creating filters. it’s a new chrome extension. I hope this will have someone as it helped me 🙂