Email is a widely used and essential tool today. We have at our disposal a great variety of different services. Some of them may have more options regarding security and privacy. Without a doubt one of the most used is Gmail. In this article we are going to explain how we can block a specific IP address in Gmail. We are going to talk about how to blacklist that IP , something that can avoid us mainly problems with spam and security.
Email security is essential
Keep in mind that email security is essential. We need to prevent the entry of emails that are fraudulent. For example, those that contain malware or are Phishing attacks .
It is a reality that certain directions can be a threat. This is why email providers can block them. We, as users, can also create blacklists to avoid receiving emails from a certain IP account. We are going to talk about it.
By including an IP address in the Gmail blacklist, we will avoid receiving emails that come from that address. We do not block a specific email address, but we are blocking the IP address. In this way we can prevent them from using a different email for the same purpose.
How to block an IP address in Gmail
The first thing we are going to have to know is what is the IP address we want to block. It is logical, without that data we will not be able to carry out the next step. This we can easily find out in our Google email account.
We have to enter the e-mail that interests us. Once inside, click on the menu on the top right (the three points) and select Show original. There we will see all the information regarding that email and what interests us is the IP address that appears in “Received” . That is the direction we should point to for the next step.
Once we have the IP address that we want to block, the next thing we must do is install the Block Sender extension. It is available for both Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox . It is best to go to the official website of each browser and download it from there.
Later we will have to register in Block Sender. We simply click on the extension icon, we create an account and link it with our Gmail . Once this is done, we log in with the account that we have just created.
We have to hit Blocks and New Block . There we will have to choose the address that we want (it will be the one that we have linked, in case we have only put one), as well as fill in what we want to block (IP address, in this case). We can also choose where we want the mail to go (for example to the trash). We have to put the IP address that we obtained previously.
In short, following these steps and through the Block Sender extension we can block an IP address in Gmail. As we have seen, simply follow a series of steps and we will already have a specific address blocked. From that moment on, we will no longer receive annoying emails or they can be dangerous in some cases.
Keep in mind that we can add as many email addresses as we want. Simply when blocking an IP we will have to select which account we want to apply these changes to. From that moment on we will not receive any email not only from a specific address, but from any one sent from that IP address.
In our Block Sender account we can manage all the IP addresses that we have blocked. This way we can easily reverse the situation at any time if we have mistakenly included an address that we did not want or if we have simply thought better of it and we are interested in receiving emails that come from that specific IP address.
