{"id":27735,"date":"2024-01-22T08:22:09","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T13:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=27735"},"modified":"2024-01-22T08:22:09","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T13:22:09","slug":"how-to-block-and-unblock-senders-in-gmail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/how-to-block-and-unblock-senders-in-gmail\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Block and Unblock Senders in Gmail"},"content":{"rendered":"

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How to Block and Unblock Senders in Gmail<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

If you want to block someone and prevent them from sending mail to your Gmail address, it\u2019s easy to do.\u00a0 Most of you remember the old \u201cBlock sender\u201d feature on Windows Mail (and Outlook Express). Thankfully, Gmail works better and blocking and unblocking senders is easier.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s how to block a sender in Gmail.<\/span> <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Open an email that came from the sender you want to block. You’ll see an icon with three vertical dots to the right of the \u201cReply\u201d button. Click on that icon.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Cloudeight<\/span><\/p>\n

You\u2019ll see a drop-down menu (see below). On the menu, you\u2019ll see \u201cBlock (whatever the sender\u2019s name is)\u201d for instance \u201cBlock Mister Irritating\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

The sender will be immediately added to your block senders list and all mail from them will be blocked from your Inbox and placed in the spam folder. Also, from the same menu, you can report the email as spam or phishing email.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Cloudeight<\/span><\/p>\n

How to unblock a blocked sender in Gmail<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

But what if you want to allow the sender you blocked?<\/span><\/p>\n

Right! Now, what happens if you patch things up with the sender you blocked and you want to unblock them so you can get emails from them again? We\u2019re glad you asked. It\u2019s easy to do!<\/span><\/p>\n

Open Settings and click on \u201cSee all settings\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Cloudeight<\/span><\/p>\n

Click on \u201cFilters and Blocked Addresses\u201d from the menu at the top.\u00a0 All of your blocked addresses (if any) will appear in the list when you click the button labeled \u201cUnblock selected addresses\u201d.\u00a0 (As you can see we have not blocked anyone.)<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Cloudeight<\/span><\/p>\n

Just remove the sender from the list of blocked addresses and he or she is back in your good graces and all mail from them will be sent to your inbox again.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    How to Block and Unblock Senders in Gmail If you want to block someone and prevent them from sending mail to your Gmail address, it\u2019s easy to do.\u00a0 Most of you remember the old \u201cBlock sender\u201d feature on Windows Mail (and Outlook Express). Thankfully, Gmail works better and blocking and unblocking senders is easier. Here\u2019s how\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1461,1751],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27735"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27736,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27735\/revisions\/27736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}