Any way to block emails coming into OUTLOOK?

[Lisa03]

I only use Outlook here at work and all of a sudden I am getting tons of junk crap

anyway to block this stuff on there?

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[adair]

go to TOOLS and then to MESSAGE RULES and then to MAIL. You can set up who you would like to receive mail from and that should help with the blocking.

[Tadbit]

I use Outlook too, and when I want to block someone, I just go to the message tool bar at the top of the page and click on that. There is an option to block sender on it. Then I just click it and a box comes up and ask if you want to block sender. Click yes and then it blocks and deletes the email.

[Lisa03]

thanks for your help

I will give it a shot

[BearsBunny2]

This is what I do because sometimes my blocked senders would mess up and get deleted. This works really good.

Deleting messages without downloading.

Caution should be used when creating rules that delete messages from the server without downloading them. If your rule is too broad you will likely delete some legitimate mail, and there is no way to recover it.

Also care must be taken not to create a 'delete' rule based on conditions that require the mesage be downloaded in order to test against the rule. Those conditions are "where the message body contains text", "where the message has an attachment" and "where the message is secure". The same restriction applies if you use the action "do not download".

Rules that delete message from server MUST be at the top of the rules list or they might not work as expected. If your very first rule includes a condition requiring that the message be downloaded, then no 'delete' rule will do anything at all.

Delete from server if FROM
Apply this rule after the message arrives
Where the From line contains '1234' or 'funny.com'
(this is where you add the sites you don't want email from.)
Delete it from server(option you check)

Use this to block known spammers who always use the same FROM address. To add a new address to the rule, click Tools/Message Rules/Mail, then click once on the rule to be select it. In the Description pane at the bottom, just ckick on any of the blue underlined addresses to open the Add dialogue.


Delete from server if SUBJECT
Apply this rule afer the message arrives
Where the Subject line contains 'cupid' or '$$'(examples)
Delete if from server.

Use this to capture and delete messages that contain typical spam words, phrases or strings of characters in subject line. this is much more reliable in stopping spam than the Block Sender feature, since spammers seldom use the same From address.


In my exprience with Blocked sender it does still download the email, it just puts it in your deleted items, so you still get it, it is just in your trash instead of your inbox.