Microsoft recently released the new and improved email service Outlook.com. One of the features of Outlook.com is that you can easily add email IDs to a blocked list so you can block users who spam your inbox and send you useless junk.
Log in to your Outlook.com account and go to More Mail Settings by clicking on the gear icon.
Click on Safe and Blocked Senders.
From here, you can create a whitelist of emails which includes people who are allowed to send you emails. You can even create a list of senders who are blocked from sending you anything. Any email sent from them will be automatically deleted from Outlook.com. So, to block an email address, click on Blocked Senders.
Add the email address you want to block and click Add to list. It will show you the list of email ids blocked as well in the right side of the screen.
If you want to remove anyone from the blocked list, just select the email address and click on Remove From List.
There you have it, folks. A simple way to make your Outlook.com inbox spam free. Another great way to avoid unwanted SPAM and add security to your Outlook.com inbox is create an alias account.
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Mr Allnut
It would be a lot easier if you could just right click the email, and add to blocked list, instead of having to type the addess. #justsaying
Brian Burgess
Agreed. But remember that Outlook.com is still in beta, so hopefully that feature will be added in the future.
Mr Allnut
I did email MS with the suggestion, so who knows.
Brian Burgess
Agreed. But remember that Outlook.com is still in beta, so hopefully that feature will be added in the future.
Zack
I do not know if the English version is the same in my language (Portuguese), but you enter in the message, click the arrow clean and there is the option to block.
Mr Allnut
Zack. I have just found it. In this version we have Sweep and then Block From…..Thanks
Mr Allnut
It would be a lot easier if you could just right click the email, and add to blocked list, instead of having to type the addess. #justsaying
Martyn
Hey there.
when i open my outlook email account. I do not have a gear icon to click!making it very hard to block unwanted emails
John
I have one problem with the new Outlook. When I am checking the block for deleting an item, the corresponding email message frequently opens
Gail
I hate this new set up. Slow and stupid.
thaikin
For twenty years my email has been an alias named account. For some reason outlook or hotmail or Microsoft has seen fit to change my original setting so that now I am receiving emails to my real name. I can find no way in the unbelievable quagmire of nonsense regarding a million possible linked, so called, services to either contact hotmail about this unwanted and unethical invasion of privacy or any other way to re-establish my name and original privacy settings. It is good to read how simple the designers of this privacy invasion believe the whole thing is now but I doubt anyone else does. If someone has an answer that actually may help and without endless gobblygook incased in techno-babble please feel free to send me some advice about this.
Thaikin