How To: Block a Sender in Outlook

Description

You may wish to stop receiving correspondence from an individual or a mailing list. This article will explain how you can put a block on a sender on your Duquesne email account so that all emails received from this account will be sent immediately to your Junk mail box.

If you are receiving phishing emails, or emails that appear to be scams, please review our Services article regarding how to report these emails so the IT Service Desk can take action on them.

Steps

Blocking Senders on Outlook for Windows

Using the Right-Click Menu

1. Open Outlook and find an email by the sender that you wish to block.
2. Right-click on the email, and highlight Junk.
3. Click Block Sender.
   

By Email Address

1. In Outlook, under the Home ribbon on the toolbar, click the Horizontal Dots.
2. Highlight the Junk option.
   • The Junk option may also be listed under the Home ribbon outside of the horizontal dots drop-down.
3. Click Junk E-mail options...
   
4. Under the Junk E-mail Options screen, navigate to the Blocked Senders tab
5. Click Add...
   
6. Enter an email address or domain to be added to your block list; e.g. example@example.com, or simply @example.com. Press OK.
   

Blocking Senders on Outlook-on-the-Web (OWA)

1. Go to duq.edu/mail and sign in with your MultiPass username and password if prompted.
2. Find an email by the sender you wish to block and right-click on it.
3. Highlight Block.
4. Click Block Sender.