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Protecting Yourself From Spam

Avoiding Spam Blocking Images Blocking Specific Addresses

Blocking Specific Addresses

Blocked addresses are email addresses from which you don’t want to receive any email. All incoming messages from blocked addresses are automatically deleted, without bouncing back to the sender or going into one of your mail folders. If you would like to block messages from a particular source, you can set up a block on the sender’s address or entire domain. As long as the sender always uses the same mailing address or domain, this type of blocking is very effective.

 

Here’s How

  1. Go to the Mail Options page. (Remind me how.)

  2. Under the Spam topic, click the Blocked Addresses link. The Blocked Addresses page appears.

    Click the Block Addresses link.

  3. In the Add Block area, enter the email address you wish to block.

    To block email messages from an entire domain (for example, baddomain.com), enter the domain in this field.

    Enter the address or domain to block, then click the Add Block button.

  4. Click the Add Block button to save the address or domain in your list of blocked addresses.

    The address now appears on your list of blocked addresses.

    The address you added appears in the blocked addresses list.

  5. To remove or unblock an address or domain from your list, select the entry to remove, then click the Remove Block button.

    Select any address to block, then click the Remove Block button.

    A message at the top of the page notifies you that the block has been successfully removed. You can once again receive mail from this address or domain.

    Example of a message notifying you that an address has been blocked.

 

What’s Next

For more efficient address blocking, you can configure the SpamGuard Plus tool to add the sender to your blocked addresses list when you mark a specific message as spam. However, blocking specific addresses is not a particularly good strategy for preventing spam because proficient spammers constantly change the addresses and domains that they use.

Click one of the Related Tutorials links below to learn more about Yahoo! Mail’s other anti-spam tools.

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Words to Know

  • Blocked address: an email address or domain from which you never want to receive messages.
  • Domain: a set of Internet addresses, such as for a web site or email. On the Web, a domain is the part after "www." such as "my-domain.com".
  • Folder: a container that holds individual elements specific to the context; for example, email messages in Yahoo! Mail.
  • Spam: unsolicited email on the Internet; also called "junk mail".
  • Spammer: someone who sends spam.