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Can any of you computer buffs out there tell me what happens to emails when the 'blocked sender' option is used.
Are they deleted completely or returned to the sender?

Thanks
Beryl.

It generally will depend on what email system you are using. Most will go into a spam or junk or delete area of your email system.

Some will alert the sender that the email has been rejected but in other systems you wouldn't know you had been blocked.

My yahoo account holds the blocked emails in an area on the web in my spam folder but doesn't forward them to my outlook system on my computer so I have to login to my web account to check if some emails have been blocked by mistake.

Then again blocked emails could be deleted by your service provider so even you wouldn't know you had been sent a blocked message.

In an office environment they sometimes are sent to an administrator.

All this will be of little help to you I know.

Yes, I'm more confused that ever now. I run Outlook Express and I was hoping the sender would be alerted. Mmm I will have to think again.
Thanks anyway for taking the time to reply. Much appreciated.

Beryl.

Beryl - I also use Outlook Express and didn't even know there was a Blocked Sender option on there. Can you tell me where it is as I'm not very techie and would love to block all these people who keep trying to sell me Viagra or persuade me into logging into dodgy bank sites and divulging my personal details. Is this the type of blocking notification you were thinking of?

Primrose. I run Norton Internet Security 2010, this has a facility to divert any unwanted spam etc into another folder, were you can delete at your leisure.Instead of paying the £45 odd pounds that Norton charge, get the 2009 version from PC World [about £25] and update for free online once installed. Hope this helps shallotman, computer moron.

Primrose
One of the problems with spam is if you look the viagra people have all sorts of ways they use to get past spam checkers.

They spell words in a variety of ways so you can't ban on a keyword. They also generate new email addresses so that they don't send from the same address each time (just look at the senders email addresses) meaning you can't block an address.

As Shallot man says you need help from some form of spam checker to filter spam out they use a system that analyses the emails more closely. You can also mark things that you receive as spam which means stuff that has got through can be added to your banned list. I use Norton too but the full security system as this checks all sorts of attempts to 'get in' to your computer.

The downside is that it can get things wrong and filter out email that isn't spam. For this reason it usually places the spam in a folder that you can check every so often to rescue emails.

To answer your question Primrose to the block sender option.
Highlight the email - Click on Message. and choose block sender in the drop down menu.

I agree with everones opinion this is not really the answer to spam though. I was asking because I wanted a particular sender to know I was blocking them.
I have Norton Internet Security and most junk does go into the Spam box which I glance through and empty about once a week.

Beryl.