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Don Starns

Q: How do I block a sender in IOS mail?

How do I block a sender in iOS mail?

iPad, iOS 8.3

Posted on Apr 16, 2015 1:20 PM

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Q: How do I block a sender in IOS mail?

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  • by Michael Black,

    Michael Black Michael Black Apr 16, 2015 1:32 PM in response to Don Starns
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    Apr 16, 2015 1:32 PM in response to Don Starns

    In iOS you cannot.  Any mail filtering needs to be done by your service provider on their servers.  iOS Mail does not offer any such feature.  Check if your mail service provider has filtering or white & black listing provided.  If they do, log into your account via their control panel or web interface and set up filtering there.

  • by Sparkleberry,

    Sparkleberry Sparkleberry Apr 16, 2015 1:38 PM in response to Don Starns
    Level 4 (3,110 points)
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    Apr 16, 2015 1:38 PM in response to Don Starns

    Get a spam filter for your Mac and use it to filter the mail

     

    Example, Spam Sieve

     

    See

     

    http://c-command.com/spamsieve/

    and discussion on it here

    http://c-command.com/spamsieve/help/iphone-spam-filtering

     

    "Due to limitations of the iOS platform, there is not currently an iPhone version of SpamSieve. However, you can use SpamSieve on your Mac to keep the spam off your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. The Mac has much more bandwidth and processing power, so it makes sense to do the spam filtering there, anyway. When you check for mail on your iPhone, you won’t waste time or battery power downloading or processing spam messages."

  • by Skydiver119,Helpful

    Skydiver119 Skydiver119 Apr 16, 2015 6:32 PM in response to Don Starns
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    iPad
    Apr 16, 2015 6:32 PM in response to Don Starns

    You can't in the mail app itself. What you need to do is go to your mail provider and block it there.

    For example I use Yahoo. I'd go to yahoo.com, sign in, go to options, block the sender and save. THen iOS will respect the rules that yahoo puts in place...yahoo will block the sender, iOS will never get the mail and you'll not see it.