How to search or filter unknown blocked contacts in Apple Mail on Mac?

I have blocked a large number of spammers in Apple Mail, which are then added to my Mac's Settings/Privacy & Security/Blocked Contacts list (as unknown users).


However, I am not receiving email from a company that I expect to be able to send me mail, and so I was wondering if I had accidentally blocked their email address.


But there are so many unknown blocked contacts that I can't easily tell if this company is on the list. There appears to be no way to search or filter it. While I can select all of these contacts, I can't copy and paste them into a text editor that might let me achieve that there.


Am I missing something?


Thanks for your assistance!



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Original Title: Search/filter unknown blocked contacts

MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 26.2

Posted on Feb 7, 2026 6:57 AM

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Feb 7, 2026 7:43 AM in response to TheSimulator

It's a pointless and never-ending task trying to block spammers locally in Apple Mail because they just change their email addresses when the commercial spam blocking services start to block them. Your best bet is to use whatever junk-mail filtering tools your email host has; if your ISP provides such tools they will normally found in the settings page when you sign up on the webmail interface in a browser. Then you can use Apple Mail's junk settings to put it items marked junk into your junk mailbox so they don't clog your inbox and empty the junk every few days.

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