How to Check a Blocked Email List

Email providers and servers including Hotmail, Yahoo! mail, and Microsoft Outlook Express allow users to block email addresses, with the result that unwanted messages will stop coming into your email inbox. Gmail falls short in this area and does not provide users with the option to block email addresses. It does, however, allow you to mark messages as Spam.

Things You'll Need

• Email address and password

Instructions

Hotmail

1. Log in to your Hotmail inbox and look for the Option pull down menu located at the top right hand corner of your screen. Choose the "More options" link.

2. Select the "Safe and blocked senders" link which is listed under the "Junk email" heading.

3. Click on the link for "Blocked senders" to check which email addresses have been added to your blocked list.

Yahoo! Mail

1. Log in to your Yahoo! inbox then pull down the Options menu at the top far right of your screen. Select the "Mail Options" link.

2. Click on the Spam link from the navigation menu running down the left side of the new screen.

3. Look for the heading titled "Blocked Email Addresses". Use the scroll toolbar to navigate your entire list. Yahoo! mail lets you keep up to 500 emails at any given time in this section.

Outlook Express

1. Log in to your Outlook Express account. Look for the Tools menu from the navigation menu running across the top of your page.

2. Pull down the Tools menu and select the link for "Options". Choose the tab labeled "Preferences". Under the "Email" heading, select the link for Junk Email.

3. Click the tab that is labeled "Blocked Senders". You will see a list of email addresses that you have blocked. You can manually add or remove email addresses appearing on this list.

References

• Windows Live Hotmail -- Help Central
• Yahoo! Mail Help -- "How do I block mail from a specific sender? Can I un-block it later?"
• Microsoft Office Online -- "Add a name to the Blocked Senders List"