- You can easily block emails on your mac if you don’t want to receive emails from a certain sender using the mail app.
- You can too. set up mail to send emails from blocked senders to your inbox, but to mark them with a banner so you know it’s best to just delete the messages.
- unblock a sender it only takes a few seconds if you ever change your mind about someone’s status.
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Your inbox is probably already cluttered enough with emails you care about, that the last thing you need is a glut of messages from senders you’d rather never hear from.
Whether it’s the same spam account pinging you over and over again, a series of sugary notes from an old flame, or more forwards full of extreme political nonsense from that semi-estranged family member, the solution is the same: block the sender’s emails from your mail app.
and don’t worry, you can always unblock email addresses on your mac as fast as you block them, so don’t hesitate to take action and stop the spam. Here’s how to block an email sender on a Mac on whatever operating system your computer is running.
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how to block emails on a mac with macos catalina
1. run the mail app on your mac.
2. click a message from a sender you’d like to block.
3. hover over your name above the message, then click the little down arrow that appears.
4. click “block contact”.
To unblock a sender, follow the same steps as when you blocked them, but this time just select “unblock contact”.
and that’s it, your messages are deleted from your inbox until you change your mind and unblock them.
how to block emails on your mac in older versions of macos
1. run the mail app on your mac.
2. click “mail” in the top menu bar.
3. Next, click “preferences…” in the dropdown menu.
4. in the popup, click the “rules” tab in the upper right corner.
5. click the “add rule” button on the right side.
6. name your rule in the “description:” box if you like, and then in the third box from the right in the second row, enter the email address you want to block.
7. in the row below, under “perform the following actions:”, select what you want the mail app to do when it receives an email from the address you entered earlier, by selecting options from the first and second boxes.
- for example, in the first box you can select “delete message” to have the mail application automatically delete any message from that sender.
- you can also do this by selecting “move message” in the first box and “trash” in the box to the right of “to mailbox:”
8. click the blue “accept” button in the lower right corner when you are done.
9. You should now see the rule you just created in your list of active rules.
removing a rule you no longer need is just as simple.
1. click the rule you want to delete. it will turn dark blue when selected.
2. then click the “delete” button on the right hand side. click “delete” again on the popup menu.
3. once deleted, the rule will disappear from your list of active rules.
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