How to Permanently Stop Spam Emails on Gmail

Are you tired of your Gmail inbox filling up with spam? Over time, as you use your Gmail account for social media sites and online shopping, your inbox can become flooded with unwanted emails or spam messages. Read this Edison Mail article to learn how to permanently stop spam emails on Gmail and keep your inbox organized.

How to Stop Gmail Spam with Filters

Email filters are one of the easiest ways to stop or redirect spam emails. If you feel that a particular website or sender is spamming your inbox but you don’t want to completely unsubscribe from them, you can set up a filter that will automatically flag, archive, delete, send to a label, star, or forward them.

How to create a filter:

1. In the search bar at the top of your inbox, select Show search options.

2. Enter your search criteria (i.e. Subject: "Out of office")

3. At the bottom right of the window, select Create filter.

4. Choose which action(s) you'd like this filter to perform (i.e. Mark as read, Apply the label).

5. Select Create filter.

While you will continue to receive these messages, your inbox will no longer be overflowing with spam.

Stop Gmail Spam with Block Sender

For the uninitiated, blocking is like unsubscribing from messages but more. Rather than simply requesting your removal from a mailing list, blocking stops all messages from the sender permanently. This is a more permanent, effective, and further reaching solution than simply unsubscribing from messages.

Learn how you can easily block spammers from your Gmail account with our how-to guide.

Or Let Edison Mail Manage Your Gmail Spam

Block Spam with a Tap

Edison Mail's Block Sender feature is like a free junk mail blocker that allows you to block spam from individuals you're tired of hearing from. Here's how it works: if an unwelcome individual sends you a message, you simply have to tap the Block button in the upper right corner of your email, then confirm to block the address. From then on, all email messages from the blocked email address will be moved to the Trash, without ever bothering you. If at any point you wish to unblock a specific sender, you can easily do so from the Settings menu.

You could have a lot of reasons for wanting to block somebody — maybe it's a salesperson who just won't leave you alone, someone you gave your email address to long ago and now keeps sending you their personal updates, or even an ex you have blocked on every other platform. Whatever the reason is, Block Sender is a spam filter for personal email that gives you the power to banish them from your inbox for good with a single tap.

Block Sender offers you the email spam protection you deserve so your inbox is free from the junk senders you want to stop hearing from.

Stop Spam Emails That Try to Track You

One of the truths of living on the internet is that no matter where you go, ads will track you. While it's a running internet joke, there's a malicious undercurrent to it all, that every move and every click you make online is tracked and monitored, your behavioral data sold to the highest bidder to show you an advertisement and convince you to purchase yet another item you don't need.

Unfortunately the spam messages you receive from retailers and marketers are often no different — filled with malicious spy pixels (aka read receipts) that alert the sender when you opened their message, where you clicked on it, and sometimes even your geographic location as you did so.

A national survey commissioned by Edison revealed all Americans consider it important that companies do not track their email, yet 32% said they did not know leading email providers do so for advertising purposes.

This is why Edison Mail has always blocked these pixels from entering your inbox without blocking any images or degrading your email experience. Edison Mail is one of the few available free apps to block spam emails from being able to track your movements and clicks. The effect of our automatic spy pixel blocking functions like a built-in email spam filter to keep you safe from any email senders that want to track what you do inside your inbox because we believe that the only eyes in your inbox should be yours.

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