How to Remove a Hotmail Blacklist

Update your Hotmail blacklist.

Hotmail offers users a way to blacklist email and domain addresses. You can block a sender from emailing you, and, if necessary, remove the process later. You only need basic computer and email knowledge. Once you remove an email or domain address, the sender can once again send you email. While the list is not referred to as a "blacklist," it serves as one nonetheless. Senders who are added to the list will be blacklisted from sending you emails, and senders who are not added to the list--or who have been removed--can send you emails.

Things You'll Need

• Hotmail account

Instructions

1. Sign in to your Hotmail email account. Enter your Windows Live ID and password.

2. Click "Options." Find the link at the top-right corner of your email page.

3. Click "More Options." Find the link at the bottom of the drop-down menu. A new page will load.

4. Click "Safe and Blocked Sender," which is under the "Junk Email" heading.

5. Click "Blocked Sender." You will find a blacklist for unwanted emails. Manage which senders are blocked from sending you email. Each email sent by a blocked sender will automatically be deleted.

6. Remove blocked email addresses. Click on the email address of each sender you want to remove from the list and then click "Remove from List."

7. Scroll down the blacklist. Check that you have removed all the necessary senders from the list. Move your mouse pointer over the downward-pointing arrow, which is at the bottom right-hand corner of the box, and scroll all the way down the list until you have verified each sender is correct.

Tips & Warnings

• Enter the email address of a send you want to block. Click "Add to List."

• A sender will remain blocked until you remove his email address from the Hotmail blacklist.

References

• Hotmail website