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discntnt_irny_srcsm

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4. Short answer, you can't.

Reply to mitch96 (Original post)

Sat Dec 11, 2021, 11:19 AM

Dec 2021

If you were hosting an email server locally the way a business would, you could have your gateway de-pier the domain that forwards the email to you. You might also lose other emails. Your question is analogous to asking how can make sure that you never get snail mail from a certain entity.

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How do you totally block an email from ever coming into your inbox in Gmail?? [View all] mitch96 Dec 2021 OP

Filters or Rules Tetrachloride Dec 2021 #1

Press the spam button. fierywoman Dec 2021 #2

Then it just goes to the spam filter... still there and I don't want ANY of it...nt mitch96 Dec 2021 #6

That's what I've done and it just goes to trash. I don't even want to hit my mail account mitch96 Dec 2021 #3

Use a different browser to read your email and never search, browse a site or do anything else... discntnt_irny_srcsm Dec 2021 #5

This is interesting! Thanks! fierywoman Dec 2021 #8

Short answer, you can't. discntnt_irny_srcsm Dec 2021 #4

That's what I was afraid of... I have another paid email account with POBOX.COM mitch96 Dec 2021 #7