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How do I block an email address in mac mail?

I am receiving numerous repeat messages from an email address and would like to block this address. How do I do that?

iMac, iOS 7.0.4

Posted on Feb 19, 2014 4:52 PM

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Posted on Dec 14, 2017 9:28 AM

While this is great for deleting emails it does not BLOCK the email sender. It simply processes the junk email. The emails are still being sent, marked as received, and I'm not sure but perhaps even "opened"... is there a true BLOCK function available on macOS...

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Apr 3, 2016 10:16 AM in response to nogard0

For domains (that part of an email address after the '@' sign) that you are confident* are always from scamie-junk origins, such as ANY email with a 'From' address that I have ever seen an email from that ends in '.xyz' (from the .xyz domain), set up a Rule (as others have posted above) as shown below:


User uploaded file

*Be careful with this becuase it will permanently delete all emails that meet your criteria! IE: Do not specify to delete all emails that have a from address that 'ends with' the string '.com' -- that would result in you losing all email from good origins like '@me.com'. Therefore, please very carefully consider what groups of from addresses you want the emails to automatically get deleted so that you do not end up missing out on important emails that you care about.


Best of luck -- (well, it works for me anyways...)

Apr 3, 2016 1:44 PM in response to nogard0

All your iCloud email, whether from an iOS or OS X device, goes through Apples email servers and you can control Mail Rules via the web interface as explained on the following link:


http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/how-to-use-mail-rules-in-apples-icloud.co m-mail


It acts differently, but that interface at least implies that you can set up rules to block email from entities that match the string you enter; only thing is you cannot specify 'ends with', so you would even need to be more careful becuase if you block emails From '.xyz' it might just auto filter From addresses like 'you.friend@mailServer.xyz.validCompany.com' -- hopefully you see what I mean...

Jun 25, 2016 9:51 AM in response to mkkwan

This doesn't work. I have several times used the Rules to get rid of this marketer from India, info@educationtopoor.ml, selling everything from underwear to gadgets and they just keep coming even though they use the same email

address. I use Delete, but I still get them in Junk. They are like a mosquito that keeps getting in through the screen only the season never ends. Isn't there some

kind of spam police in Mac that can block these things?

Jul 14, 2016 4:05 PM in response to kjbarth

The problem with all these 'solutions' is when the section to the right of the @ sign (and to the left) changes with each email. The only constant (aside from the obvious phishing content) is ".nl" at the end, presumably referring to the Netherlands. I've asked Comcast to block all messages to me from the Netherlands, and they say it cannot be done. Similar messages come from domains ending in ".ru"


I'm sure I'm not alone.

How do I block an email address in mac mail?

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