Amelie1980 Posted November 11, 2015 Posted November 11, 2015 I want to block someone completely on GMail. The only thing I have found is the ability to filter them out into the trash or spam folder. That means they remain there for arou d 30 days before the system deletes them. I don't want them filtered away from main folder, I dont want them to reach my account at all into any folder. is there any way to do that?!
ManyDissapoint Posted November 11, 2015 Posted November 11, 2015 I want to block someone completely on GMail. The only thing I have found is the ability to filter them out into the trash or spam folder. That means they remain there for arou d 30 days before the system deletes them. I don't want them filtered away from main folder, I dont want them to reach my account at all into any folder. is there any way to do that?! If you find one....post it here.
Blanco Posted November 11, 2015 Posted November 11, 2015 If all else fails, you can just send the email right to the trash without opening it. Just pretend it's an email from some CD of the Month Club or something. They still have those, right?
pidgeon1010 Posted November 11, 2015 Posted November 11, 2015 Gmail now has a "block" feature that is accessible from the drop-down arrow when viewing a message but it operates the same way as filtering them out to spam. The block feature routes the message to your spam folder and is deleted after 30 days. If you want your messages in spam to be deleted automatically, you have to go an extra step of setting up a new filter: Just type “is:spam” in the “Has the words” field then click “Create filter with this search”. Confirm your action by clicking “OK” then on the next popup, select “Delete it”. Just leave the other fields blank. Once your filter has been created, all incoming spam messages will be automatically deleted from your Inbox as well as from your Spam folder.
carhill Posted November 11, 2015 Posted November 11, 2015 (edited) Here's something I found on Yahoo e-mail but since I don't have a gmail account can't confirm exists on Google. Edited....cool, I'll see if Yahoo has that extra filter option......... yep, it does....it's in the settings. The address can automatically be sent to the trash, bypassing all folders, including spam. When I'm in the folder view, I look to top right at the 'more' tab and then look at its dropdown menu for the word 'block'. I click on that and it brings of a list of the e-mails I have checked and asks me if I want to delete them and send all future e-mails to spam. However, it doesn't appear that performing those actions auto-deletes any future e-mails and definitely doesn't block them at the email server level. It simply and quickly marks the address for spam and cleans up the folder. While it can be possible to simply ignore the spam folder and it will auto-delete messages there, in your case after 30 days, most people get 'good' messages sent there by mistake so check spam from time to time for that so it's kinda hard to ignore the folder totally. Maybe a mental block will work better. Another option is, if the e-mails are in any way actionable, like threatening or harassing,, you can drill down to the mail/ISP headers and send an abuse complaint, with content, to the e-mail provider/ISP the mail is coming from. Sometimes that gets action. Generally, though, the internet e-mail is kinda like an unlimited free mailbox that anyone can put anything in. Imagine if your real mailbox was like that. Heh. It's just something to put up with. Most of us do and have been doing it, in my case for a couple decades. Part of life on the internet. Edited November 11, 2015 by carhill
mightycpa Posted November 11, 2015 Posted November 11, 2015 You can move emails to trash automatically, but you cannot empty the trash automatically.
Author Amelie1980 Posted November 13, 2015 Author Posted November 13, 2015 Gmail now has a "block" feature that is accessible from the drop-down arrow when viewing a message but it operates the same way as filtering them out to spam. The block feature routes the message to your spam folder and is deleted after 30 days. If you want your messages in spam to be deleted automatically, you have to go an extra step of setting up a new filter: Just type “is:spam” in the “Has the words” field then click “Create filter with this search”. Confirm your action by clicking “OK” then on the next popup, select “Delete it”. Just leave the other fields blank. Once your filter has been created, all incoming spam messages will be automatically deleted from your Inbox as well as from your Spam folder. Thanks for all your advice. I havent figured out how to do this though.
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