Gmail has a lot more than receiving email messages. It is, in fact, a marketing tool if not a social media platform.
As a Gmail user, be prepared to receive multiple emails each day from both scammers and genuine people.
Some of the emails might be disgusting, and you would want never to receive them again. It is simple; just block the company or person sending these messages to you.
The good thing is that you can block the companies or people sending you the messages. Apart from blocking them, you can send them to the spam folder.
Although this is not a remedy since sometimes, you will be seeing the annoying emails coming through.
How Can You Block Someone on Gmail?
The very first thing you are required to do whenever you want to block those annoying email messages is signing in to your Gmail account.
Without signing in, you cannot see the username of the individual sending the emails, making it hard to block.
Visit the Gmail website and key in your phone or email address and proceed by clicking next.
Enter the password in the blank space as indicated and proceed by clicking next.
Blocking on Gmail:-
There are several reasons you may want to block people from sending you emails. The primary goal is that they flood your inbox.
As much as their emails may contain useful information, they make no sense if you will not read them. Do you want to fix that problem? Here is how to go about it.
Use the blocking option-
First, open the email that you want to unsubscribe or block the sender. Click on three dots available at the end of your mail display.
You will then see a drop-down menu. There are several options available in this section. Select the sender’s name and hit block once a pop-up window shows up.
You will get a confirmation message notifying you about the email addresses you have blocked. You can ignore that or unblock the sender.
Block emails using Filter-
Open that email you want to make a filter. Similar to the first option, click the three dots and a drop-down will show. Choose the option of directing you to filter the messages.
Chose Create Filter from the WindowWindow that appears.
From the available options, ensure that you click on the box saying, “delete it”. Now scroll to the bottom of that WindowWindow and select Create Filter.
This feature will filter all incoming emails from that particular sender.
Gmail’s policies prohibit the use of Gmail to intimidate, threaten, or harass other users.
Whenever you find yourself in this danger, reach out to the local authorities as soon as possible and inquire about cyberbullying laws if they can apply to the situation you are in.
Messages from blocked senders will be found in the spam folder.
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Alternative ways of blocking someone on Gmail:-
Use the Gmail Extension-
To use a Gmail extension to block emails requires you to use Google Chrome.
Add the Gmail Block Sender extension to your Google Chrome browser.
Log in to your Gmail account and open the emails you would wish to block. Here there will be a Block button.
Once you click the Block button, the extension will create a Gmail filter that will block senders of certain email messages.
From here, you will see a confirmation message asking whether you want to undo the activity. Otherwise, you are done by receiving annoying emails.
Once the Gmail Filter is created, unwanted messages from psychotic senders will be sent to trash and not your inbox.
Setup the filters manually-
Apart from using Google extension, you can manually set up the filters and completely block annoying senders.
The sender will no longer be able to send you emails again. Wondering how to go about that, follow along.
Click that triangle on Gmail’s search field. You will find the triangle indicated with the show the search options.
Type the desired email address or sender under from in your mails account.
After those two-steps, you can now proceed to the next point. The steps below are necessary for an event where you want to block several senders at a go.
You can easily block mails from an entire domain by just typing the addresses. Let us say, for example, you do not want to receive emails from both [email protected], and [email protected] then go ahead and kind @example.com.
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Gmail’s hidden features that you need to know-
Gmail is one of the most common email service providers used by almost everyone who can access the internet and has a computer or even a smartphone.
The support available by Gmail has also contributed to the higher number of people using this platform.
Moreover, Gmail has several essential features making the management of emails simple and more comfortable.
Another thing with using Gmail is that your data will be secure not to leave behind superior privacy features that you will enjoy.
However, due to multiple features, some of them are like hidden features, but the truth is that the users have not explored the Gmail platform well. Some of these features include.
Spam hiding-
One of the features that you might not be aware of in Gmail is the capability to hide spam.
One fact you need to know about your email address is that when you include dots in it, the capacity of getting your email messages will not be affected at all.
For instance, when you are signing up for certain online services, and you are not willing to give your email address, you can include a dot or multiple dots in your email address.
Still, you will get email messages from the online service by at this point using a wrong email.
From here, create the email filter to delete the email messages incoming from the fake address you had provided.
Easy way to identify email subscriptions-
Now you can manage your newsletter subscriptions using the + feature. This feature allows you to add filters that you will use to filter emails.
The + feature is included in your address, and the good thing is you can move the feature anytime with ease.
Contact synchronization-
With contact synchronization, you can synchronize the contacts on your phone using Gmail. This helps you in backing up your contacts.
Once you do this, you will not have to worry whenever you lose your contacts. You simply synchronize back your contacts using Gmail.
Address the restoration feature-
Usually, when you delete a contact from your smartphone, the particular contact is also deleted from your Gmail account the moment you synchronize it.
However, Gmail allows you to recover your deleted contact within 30 days from the day you delete it.
Labs-
A lab in Gmail is a corner where experiments take place. It is the same as the other labs since both are for experimental purposes.
The labs’ aids in enabling preview pane and allows you to move your chats left to right of the pane by the right side option.
Merging contacts-
The “Find and Merge” feature in Gmail allows you to merge different duplicate contacts.
his option is available under the “contacts” in the right corner of your Gmail account at the top.
Calendar-
Gmail has a calendar feature that makes it easy to update calendar events, set reminders or save tasks.
Google Id helps in operating this feature. You can send the events to your friends through email, share calendars, and have access to the calendars that have been shared by your friends too.
You can access this feature even if you are operating your Gmail account using a smartphone. With this, you can edit calendar events whenever you are.
Final Words:-
So here the exact methods which I personally use to Block someone on Gmail.
Which method did you like? Comment down below your opinion.
josh says
Gmail is the best thing that happened since sliced bread. That may sound like an over statement. If you really think about it, Gmail definitely has changed the way how we manage emails…well what can i say than to thamk you for this post.