How To Block Emails on Hotmail

According to the National Technology Readiness Survey and Maryland’s Business School, the average time spent deleting spam messages per day is 2.8 minutes. If we multiply that by 365 days in a year, we get 17 days we’d rather spend with our family and friends, or going on a vacation to recharge the batteries for tasks other than deleting junk email.

Still, you can’t just ignore all the spam that finds its way to your Hotmail inbox. Technically, you could, but your inbox would get clogged, and you’d risk missing the important emails from your friends or colleagues.

The question is—how do you safeguard your identity and personal information from phishing scams and protect yourself from harassment messages and other unsolicited emails, without wasting 17 days a year? Here’s how to block emails on Hotmail successfully.

How To Block Emails on Hotmail Manually

Every email service provider (ESP) is well aware of the fact that people detest spam, Hotmail included. That’s why ESPs implement spam filters and other mechanisms that you can leverage to prevent spam and unsolicited emails from reaching your inbox.

If you want to learn how to stop receiving emails on Hotmail, there are three ways to do so:

Blocking a specific email address
Using filters
Blocking all emails unknown to you

Blocking a Specific Email Address on Hotmail

If you keep getting unwanted emails from a particular sender, the best thing to do is add their address to the blocked addresses list. Here is how to do it:

Go to your Inbox
Click the gear icon at the upper-right side of the page
Select More mail settings
Under Preventing junk email, click Safe and blocked senders
Select Blocked senders
Enter the email address or a domain in the box labeled Blocked email address or domain
Click on Add to list

How To Block an Email on Hotmail by Creating a Filtering Rule

You can create a rule that will block emails based on specific words in the email subject line. For instance, you can add words like buy, now, help, winner, lucky, or similar words and phrases that you encounter in spam email subject lines.

By doing this, you’re essentially setting up your own spam filter, so emails with subject lines containing the chosen words will go straight to your Spam folder.

Here’s how to set up a filtering rule on Hotmail:

Log on using your name and password
Click the gear icon in the upper-right corner
Opt for More mail settings
Select Rules for sorting new messages under the Customizing Hotmail section
Click on New
Go to Which messages do you want this rule to apply to
Choose Subject in the first drop-down menu
Select Contains in the second drop-down menu
Type the word you would like to block in the third field
Click on Delete these messages under What action do you want to apply
Hit Save

Blocking Hotmail Messages From All Unknown Email Addresses

You can create a safe sender list to block all unknown senders. This way, messages from people or companies not on the list will automatically go to your junk folder. These are the steps to follow:

Login to your account
Click the gear icon in the upper-right corner
Select More mail settings
Click the Filters and Reporting option under Preventing junk email
Hit Exclusive
Choose Safe Senders
Type in the email addresses you want to add as safe, pressing Enter after typing each one
Click on Save at the top of the window

Only the messages from Contacts or the Allowed sender list will appear in your inbox. You should occasionally check your junk email folder to ensure that important messages haven’t been sent there by mistake.

Situation	What You Should Do
You want to block all unknown senders	Create a Safe Sender list
You want to avoid emails from a specific person	Use the Blocked Address list
You want to stop spam	Create the Filtering Rule

How To Unsubscribe From Emails on Hotmail

As with any other ESP, you can unsubscribe from specific mailing lists on Hotmail by opening up an unwanted email and clicking the Unsubscribe link.

That said, there’s a much easier way to unsubscribe from spammers on Hotmail:

Log into your Hotmail account
Navigate to Settings
Select Mail
Click on Subscriptions
Hit Unsubscribe next to the email from the sender you no longer wish to receive emails from

Hotmail will list all of your active email subscriptions, allowing you to quickly browse through them and unsubscribe from annoying spammers with a single click. Depending on how many mailing lists you’re subscribed to, this can take a lot of time. There’s also the fact that this option cannot help you deal with unsolicited emails—sent by people you haven’t shared your email address with.

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How To Block an Email Address on Hotmail With DoNotPay

DoNotPay can help you block unwanted messages on Hotmail in a flash. Follow these steps, and you’ll protect yourself from irrelevant, annoying, and potentially harmful emails:

Log into your account on the or iOS app
Select Spam Collector
Enter your email address to connect it with DoNotPay
Forward the next unwanted message to spam@donotpay.com

Our anti-spam service will unsubscribe you automatically from the sender. Any emails they attempt to send you in the future won’t be able to reach your inbox—if it does, we’ll help you report email abuse.

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How To Block Emails on Hotmail