How does one blacklist a specific email address from showing up in their Gmail inbox. I get this question a lot, so I thought I would blog it and then tell people to read this blog post when I am asked again.

Yes, you get the spam over and over again from the same email address. Or you are signed up to your friend's mailing list and you don't want to insult him by asking him to remove you, but you don't want those email. Simple answer is to blacklist the email. But how do you do that in Gmail?

You set up a filter. Here is how.

(1) Go to Gmail
(2) Click Settings
(3) Click on Filters
(4) Click Add New Filter
(5) Enter Email address in from box and click Next Step:

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(6) Check off the "Mark as Read" and "Delete It" check boxes and click "Create Filter.

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You are done.

For a more advanced way of doing this, see Alex's post on this topic from 2006.