After chatting live, you gave your Gmail email address to a person you’ve known for a short time, to allow her to send you the files you needed; however, this person turned out to be a serial spammer , ready to flood your inbox with messages relating to events that, frankly, you care very little about. This is 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 right 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 I’m about to give you to the letter, in fact, you’ll learn how to block an email address on Gmail in no time, acting as a Web, come on most well-known email clients for computers and also for smartphones and tablets.
These are extremely simple procedures and truly within everyone’s reach, even 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? Find it all explained below.
Index
- How to block email addresses in gmail from web
- How to block email addresses in gmail from clients
- Microsoft Outlook (Windows/macOS)
- Mail (Windows 10/11)
- Thunderbird (Windows/macOS/Linux)
- Mail (macOS)
- Block email addresses in Gmail from smartphones and tablets
How to block email addresses in gmail from web
The web version of Gmail , accessible through any computer browser, has a very simple block sender 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 , log in to access the service (if necessary) and, once the Inbox folder is loaded , open any of the messages received from the contact you wish to block.
Once this is done, click on the ⋮ icon located at the top right of the box dedicated to the message and, in the menu that opens, press the item Block NomeSender , then confirm your wish to proceed by clicking on the Block button again .
To unblock a blocked address, again from the Gmail main page, click on the gear icon located at the top right and choose the item View all settings , in the box that is shown to you.
In the new screen that you are viewing, go to the Filters and blocked addresses tab , scroll down the page to the bottom, in order to reach the section dedicated to currently blocked e-mail addresses: locate the sender to unblock and click on the corresponding Unblock item for two consecutive times.
How to block email addresses in gmail from clients
Don’t rely on the web version of Google’s email service, but have your account set up 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 also on other programs not present in this guide.
Microsoft 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 365 (Office) suite and now, to keep your inbox clean, you have every intention of blocking addresses that you deem inappropriate, avoiding receiving unwelcome messages from them.
Doing so is really simple: after starting Outlook , open your inbox and identify, on the left side of the program, the message received from the sender you want to block. At this point, right- click on it and, in the box you see, select the items Junk mail. > Block sender and press the OK button to complete the procedure.
If you need to unblock a previously blocked account, go to the Home tab in the top toolbar and click on the Junk items . > Junk e-mail options (if you do not find the Junk e-mail item , first click on the (…) icon on the right).
In the box that appears, move to the Blocked Senders tab , select the address you wish to unblock and then press the Remove and OK buttons .
Mail (Windows 10/11)
If you consult Google’s e-mail through the Mail program integrated in Windows 10 and Windows 11 , then this is the section that is right for you: you can block an unwelcome sender (and messages from it), also in this case, within by a couple of clicks.
To begin with, start the program and click on the Inbox folder associated with your Gmail account, right-click on the preview of one of the messages received from the address you wish to block and select the item Move as junk located in the menu that opens : in this way, the message is immediately moved to the aforementioned folder and the sender’s address blocked.
Thunderbird (Windows/macOS/Linux)
If you intend to block an email address in Gmail and you consult email via the Thunderbird client , you need to configure filters so that messages from the address in question are deleted or moved to spam as soon as they are downloaded from your computer.
To do this, start the program, click on the ☰ icon located at the top right and select the items Tools> 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 filter by clicking on the New button .
At this point, indicate the Name of the filter you are about to create (e.g. Block senders ) in the appropriate text box, select the option They meet all 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 block . If you wish, you can add further senders by clicking on the [+] button immediately adjacent to the field you just filled in.
Finally, choose the options Move the message to and Junk and confirm the activation of the rule by pressing the OK button . If you intend to delete the e-mail instead, select the Delete message item instead . The game is done!
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 in the rule itself.
Mail (macOS)
You’ve set up your Google account on Mail , the default email client on Macs, so you’d like to know if it’s possible to block email addresses on Gmail on this program too? Of course yes! You can easily do it in just a few clicks. How? Very simple.
First, launch the Mail application and, using the left area, locate the message from the sender you want to block. Once this is done, after viewing the content of the message in the right area, locate the sender’s e-mail address at the top, click on the ▼ icon on the side and press the Block contact item from the screen box. Easy, am I right?
In case you want to reconsider and unblock the contact, via the menu bar at the top, press on the items Mail> Preferences and, on the screen that appears, select the Junk tab . Then press in the Blocked section at the top, locate the email address you have blocked, click on it and then press on the icon ( – ) next to it.
Block email addresses in Gmail from smartphones and tablets
Didn’t find the suggestions explained in this guide of interest to you, since you access your email mainly through the Gmail app for Android and iOS/iPadOS ? Don’t worry, you can block email addresses in Gmail very easily.
Open an e-mail message received from the contact you wish to block and press the ⋮ icon at the top right. At this point, to block emails on Gmail from Android , simply press on the item Block user in the box that is shown to you. If, on the other hand, you want to block an email address on Gmail from the iPhone , in the box that appears, press the item Block [sender name] .
Well, now you know the simplest and most effective techniques to block email addresses in Gmail . However, if you want to know the techniques for carrying out the same operation for other mail providers, such as Outlook.com , iCloud Mail , Yahoo Mail and so on, I suggest you take a look at my tutorial on how to block unwanted emails : you will find definitely what you are looking for!
