Blocking sender

[UnquietDad]

Hi geeky folks - does anyone know how to block a particular sender's emails? Ideally, to send them back to this person so that they are aware they are being blocked? I know there is a way on Outlook, but I'm using Thunderbird.

[Meeely2]

I read all that, was about to send you my geeky reply (I support exchange as a job!), then saw thunderbird! eee arrrr, sorry, not a clue!

[UnquietDad]

Thunderbird has some annoying gaps! I switched to using it and firefox a while back.

[UnquietDad]

One of my former students has started abusing the class email round-robin a wile back to make really nasty comments about people's work and the reaction to them.

He's made it clear that he's not coming back to the class, but continues to send me personally abusive emails. Do you think I should contact his service provider?

[peanutbear]

I havn't a clue how to do it on Thunderbird but I think I would contact his provider they may be able to block him from sending to your email address

[UnquietDad]

He's on yahoo - been looking on various pages but I can't find a general queries page of this sort...

[peanutbear]

Call BT they own Yahoo

[UnquietDad]

I'm going to try [email protected]

[UnquietDad]

Is there any way I can send a reply to him which looks like a "blocked message" reply? Can anyone give me a format?

[Greyriverside]

This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

[email protected]

no such address here

[throckenholt]

I would create a message filter - that sorts on the senders address and _ think you can do a reply to.

[throckenholt]

by the way - message filters are under tools

[UnquietDad]

thanks

[Greyriverside]

Frequently it goes on to say this with the complete source of the message. I don't know how you get the source in Thunderbird. In OE you can right click the email and do properties. it will begin like this and much of it will look like gibberish.



-- This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. --

Return-path:
Received: from [his IP number] (helo=hiscomputersname)
by hisemailserver.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.68)
(envelope-from )
id 1JlMZG-0ee8LD-6z

etc
etc
etc

[Greyriverside]

Yes, if you can do a message filter that would be much easier

[UnquietDad]

It'll obviously come from me, though, won't it? Not the provider.

I can set up a filter but that will only help if he sends me any more. I want to send a "shot across the bows", so to speak, in the form of a rejection of his last message.

[Greyriverside]

Which email provider is it? For example I use an old account with tiscali and I access it from outlook express. However I can log onto it on their website and set up filters there and block senders. This may apply to some others too.

You'd still have to wait for another email, but since it would be automatic you could set it up and forget it.

[EvelynsDad]

You can do something like this to generate an auto-reply saying message rejected.

You can then add a second action to the filter to delete the message.

NB. I haven't actually tried this.

[Swedes]

Abusive emails could constitute harassment which is a criminal offence. I would email him back and link him to this

[UnquietDad]

grey - I'm blueyonder. It links to webmail as you say.

evelynsdad - thanks, will try it.

swedes - thanks also - I've already reported him for harassment to the institution I work for.