If you could change someone's life, would you?
That was the cute subject line of a sales e-mail sent to my account.. Oooo!! Click-Baity!!
It has taken me awhile to get a solution to this problem. Getting inundated with worthless crap e-mails from essentially car salesmen is now a part of corporate life. There is one really nice thing about switching jobs -- You get a new e-mail address!! After awhile the sale zombies catch up and soon your e-mail box starts filling up with junk again.
Help! Please! Someone make it stop!
I realize that for some people, it's their job to sell stuff. Those people I reach out to are the ones I want to deal with, however. The rest of you can find a quiet corner of the room and...
It took me awhile to find an approach to this that worked. You see, originally I actually would try to unsubscribe -- and for some odd reason five more unwanted emails got sent in my face. Gee, I wonder how that happened? Could it be the morally reprehensible sales company agreed to stop sending me e-mails in thirty days (What are you people writing my e-mail down? Send a mule to go tell bob to erase this guy from our email list.. Oh here's an eraser.), then sent my e-mail to five other trolls to spew garbage in my inbox?
Needless to say that exercise is futile, and irritating.
So here's how you duct-tape their mouths shut in Outlook. The idea is the same for any e-mail client.
You get a silly e-mail:
OMG!! The event of the year! Hope I can get tickets!
Right-Click, Junk, and no.. not block sender, click on Junk Email Options:
Go to the Blocked Senders tab -- Click add. Now, refer to the email that the sender sent and put in the @ symbol and everything after it.
example @stopbotheringme.com
If you do block sender the sender only.. Well, some companies are especially evil and you might block something like this:
info+472347610-36525223638470@evilcompany.com
And they can just randomize that stuff over and over again and keep getting through.
After completion get a cup of coffee, pat yourself on the back, and get back to work.
