# Blocking a particular e-mail sender's messages **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 26, 2017, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blocking-a-particular-e-mail-senders-messages/780873 "2017-02-26T20:18:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2017, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blocking-a-particular-e-mail-senders-messages/780873/1 "2017-02-26T20:18:59Z")
Specifically, a sender who posts on Facebook. This sender clogged my Hotmail e-mail Inbox with **twenty-two** e-mails overnight! Is there a specific link, or website, or something, to go to, in order to effect a block to keep from receiving e-mails from this particular source? :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2017, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blocking-a-particular-e-mail-senders-messages/780873/2 "2017-02-26T20:35:08Z")
It would have to be done through your e-mail provider (hotmail) – you can block e-mails from certain individuals. I haven’t used hotmail in years, so you’d have to ask someone who does. What kind of e-mails are these, are these? Since you said they’re from facebook, do you have it set up so you get e-mail notifications every time someone posts on your page? THAT could be the problem, not the person e-mailing you. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2017, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blocking-a-particular-e-mail-senders-messages/780873/3 "2017-02-26T21:01:52Z")
I keep getting e-mails from Jews for Torah…sometimes every 30 minutes or so, or even less. I sent a message to Microsoft, after calling my cell phone provider. The Facebook messages, which I can easily ignore, also appear in my Inbox, and with 22 of them (!!) there this morning I take them as harassment (I come from a telephone-company family and I know about harassing calls). Jews for Torah is dead set against Christianity. Whoopee. I couldn’t care less about them saying that, but I certainly don’t want 22 messages of that philosophy cramming my Inbox! I have been waiting for some important messages and I need stuff like **THIS** like a hole in the head! :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2017, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blocking-a-particular-e-mail-senders-messages/780873/4 "2017-02-26T21:03:51Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > Specifically, a sender who posts on Facebook. This sender clogged my Hotmail e-mail Inbox with **twenty-two** e-mails overnight! Is there a specific link, or website, or something, to go to, in order to effect a block to keep from receiving e-mails from this particular source? :mad: A simple solution that might work is to set up a rule that automatically drops messages from that sender into your deleted mail folder. This appears to be a guide that tells you how to do that kind of thing [https://www.lifewire.com/move-or-create-future-rule-hotmail-1174253](https://www.lifewire.com/move-or-create-future-rule-hotmail-1174253) ---
**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2017, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blocking-a-particular-e-mail-senders-messages/780873/5 "2017-02-26T21:07:35Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > I keep getting e-mails from Jews for Torah…sometimes every 30 minutes or so, or even less. I sent a message to Microsoft, after calling my cell phone provider. The Facebook messages, which I can easily ignore, also appear in my Inbox, and with 22 of them (!!) there this morning I take them as harassment (I come from a telephone-company family and I know about harassing calls). > Jews for Torah is dead set against Christianity. Whoopee. I couldn’t care less about them saying that, but I certainly don’t want 22 messages of that philosophy cramming my Inbox! I have been waiting for some important messages and I need stuff like **THIS** like a hole in the head! :mad: Don’t just ignore the FB messages; block the sender within Facebook. That should stop FB from sending a copy to your e-mail. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2017, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blocking-a-particular-e-mail-senders-messages/780873/6 "2017-02-26T21:10:18Z")
> [@Canadjun](#): > > Don’t just ignore the FB messages; block the sender within Facebook. That should stop FB from sending a copy to your e-mail. Tell me more…I would like to know what to click on on the Facebook page to effect this procedure. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2017, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blocking-a-particular-e-mail-senders-messages/780873/7 "2017-02-26T21:12:31Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > Tell me more…I would like to know what to click on on the Facebook page to effect this procedure. 🙂 [https://www.facebook.com/help/1000976436606344/?helpref=hc\_fnav](https://www.facebook.com/help/1000976436606344/?helpref=hc_fnav) ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2017, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blocking-a-particular-e-mail-senders-messages/780873/8 "2017-02-26T21:17:45Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > A simple solution that might work is to set up a rule that automatically drops messages from that sender into your deleted mail folder. This appears to be a guide that tells you how to do that kind of thing [https://www.lifewire.com/move-or-create-future-rule-hotmail-1174253](https://www.lifewire.com/move-or-create-future-rule-hotmail-1174253) Thanks! I copied that procedure…I’ll never have to have them in my Inbox again. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2017, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blocking-a-particular-e-mail-senders-messages/780873/9 "2017-02-26T21:22:17Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > I have been waiting for some important messages and I need stuff like **THIS** like a hole in the head! :mad: Not sure if you’re serious, but I can’t see how your situation would be improved by trepanation. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2017, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blocking-a-particular-e-mail-senders-messages/780873/10 "2017-02-26T21:22:25Z")
> [@Duckster](#): > > [https://www.facebook.com/help/1000976436606344/?helpref=hc\_fnav](https://www.facebook.com/help/1000976436606344/?helpref=hc_fnav) And thanks to YOU…I’ll never see them on Facebook wasting my time… ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2017, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blocking-a-particular-e-mail-senders-messages/780873/11 "2017-02-26T21:22:41Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > Thanks! I copied that procedure…I’ll never have to have them in my Inbox again. 🙂 Glad to help. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2017, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blocking-a-particular-e-mail-senders-messages/780873/12 "2017-02-26T21:57:26Z")
So you have your answer for Hotmail, and you have your answer for Facebook. So I guess you finally have the full… \_ **monty**. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2017, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blocking-a-particular-e-mail-senders-messages/780873/13 "2017-02-26T22:21:29Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Not sure if you’re serious, but I can’t see how your situation would be improved by trepanation. Oh, now THERE 'S a good straight line! Heh heh heh… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2017, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blocking-a-particular-e-mail-senders-messages/780873/14 "2017-03-09T18:22:08Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > A simple solution that might work is to set up a rule that automatically drops messages from that sender into your deleted mail folder. This appears to be a guide that tells you how to do that kind of thing [https://www.lifewire.com/move-or-create-future-rule-hotmail-1174253](https://www.lifewire.com/move-or-create-future-rule-hotmail-1174253) Can this procedure be reversed? Jews for Torah isn’t sending out messages like that any more, and I miss the ordinary communications I had been getting from friends on Facebook. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2017, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blocking-a-particular-e-mail-senders-messages/780873/15 "2017-03-09T18:29:57Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > Can this procedure be reversed? Jews for Torah isn’t sending out messages like that any more, and I miss the ordinary communications I had been getting from friends on Facebook. It looks like you can reverse the procedure this way: "you can edit or cancel the rule Windows Live Hotmail set up: ``` Click the gear that appears next to Folders when you move the mouse over it. Select Manage rules from the menu. Click Edit next to the desired rule to change it. Check an unwanted rule and click Delete to remove it." ``` ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2017, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blocking-a-particular-e-mail-senders-messages/780873/16 "2017-03-09T18:35:58Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > It looks like you can reverse the procedure this way: > > "you can edit or cancel the rule Windows Live Hotmail set up: > > ``` > Click the gear that appears next to Folders when you move the mouse over it. > Select Manage rules from the menu. > Click Edit next to the desired rule to change it. > Check an unwanted rule and click Delete to remove it." > > ``` Thanx 🙂