Managing your Block List in BlueMail is an efficient way to control spam emails. You can easily view and edit this list to ensure only desired emails reach your inbox.
Accessing the Block List
To view or edit the Block List, go to Settings | Accounts | [select the account] | Blocked Senders.
Here you will see everything currently set to be moved to the Spam folder automatically. The list is kept per account, and it is split across three tabs:
- Address — one specific email address.
- Domain — every address at a domain, for example everything from
@spammer.spam.com. - Suffix — a third category, listed separately from Address and Domain.
There is also a Search box above the tabs, which is the quickest way to find one entry once the list has grown.
Managing the Block List
- Adding to the Block List: You can add multiple addresses and domains to the Block List, helping you avoid unwanted emails across different accounts.
- Removing from the Block List: To remove an address or domain, tap the red X next to the entry.
Still receiving a lot of spam?
Blocking works on the sender's address or domain, so it stops the senders you have already heard from. If unwanted mail keeps arriving from new addresses each time, blocking one at a time will not keep up. Two things help more:
- Let BlueMail screen mail for you automatically. Settings | Privacy & Security | Advanced Features | Spam Filter turns it on, and you choose how firmly it works — Low or High — so it catches the new senders you would otherwise be blocking one by one. See How Do I Manage Spam? and Blue Guard.
- Use your email provider's own filter rules for anything BlueMail cannot express — filtering on a word in the subject or body, for instance. BlueMail blocks by sender and domain, not by content, and provider rules run on the server before BlueMail ever sees the message.
