Emails are still popular and will be for a long time.
That makes it a hottarget for spammers, marketers, and hackers.
All email service providers offer some ways to solve that problem and Microsoft Outlook is no different.
you’re able to either delete such emails or block the sender in Outlook.
But do you know what really happens when you block a sender in Outlook?
That raises some important questions: Can they still send emails?
Can you send emails to them?
What happens to those emails?
And how to unblock them in the future if need be?
There are two ways to do it use the Sweep option or Junk button.
launch the mail whose send you want to block in Outlook and press the Sweep button.
You will see a bunch of options in the pop-up menu that follows.
That will instruct Outlook to move all emails, present, and future, to the Deleted folder automatically.
However, if you tap on the Junk button, you will see three different options.
you could mark it as junk, phishing mail, or directly block the sender.
You will be asked for confirmation next.
However, those emails will never make it to your Inbox you will never see them.
Instead, they will land in the Deleted Items folder directly.
Blocking will only stop future emails but wont touch emails lying in the Inbox.
Why not send the emails to the Junk folder instead?
Because that will notify the sender that the email was not sent.
Deleting an email will notify him/her that the receiver indeed received the email.
But it still wont appear in the Inbox.
Its a clever workaround.
Sending/Receiving Emails From/To Blocked Sender
The sender of the blocked email address can still send you emails.
you’ve got the option to send an email to the blocked address too.
Who Is Notified When Email Is Sent or Received
The short answer no one.
You will not be notified when a blocked sender sends you an email.
Thats what you wanted, right?
The sender wont receive any notifications either that his email didnt go through.
And thats because the email is sent to the Deleted Items instead of the Junk folder.
Enablingdark mode in Outlookreally messes up the right sidebar.
kill the dark mode if you cant see prefs.
Select Junk email under the Mail tab.
you’re able to remove all blocked email IDs or addresses from there.
That is wherefilters and rulescan come in handy.
That way, you wont have to block the sender, and their emails wont clutter the inbox either.
Block Domains in Outlook
you might block an entire domain in Microsoft Outlook.
That will filter all emails from any ID that ends with that domain name.
For example, blocking yahoo.com will block all emails from any Yahoo ID.
Go back to Junk email prefs under Mail tab and press Add.
Its the same location where you unblock email IDs.
Just enter the domain name and hit Enter on your keyboard to block it.
it’s possible for you to also enter email addresses to that list.
Block That Move
Spammers and hackers can be persistent.
Its like a never-ending battle.
The war rages on.
No wonder apps like Slack arepopular with teamsaround the world, claiming toreplace emails.
They have been successful to an extent, but I think all official communication still happens via emails.
Use filters and rules to manage your Microsoft Outlook inbox better.
Now you know what happens when you block a sender in Outlook now.
So use it accordingly.
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punch the link below to learn how to create and then manage rules to manage emails effectively and effortlessly.
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