Advice on how to block a family member from emailing, but retain the contact info.?

Hi, Thanks for reading. Heres my dilema, I have an extended family member that is emailing me alot - ( several times a day)


19 + times since the first of the month. The e-mails are those cheezy chain letters with angels and puppies ... or the like.


I know that I could just hit the spam button , but I'm not sure if this action would result in them getting a notice that I considered them ';spam'; material.


This person is an extended ';family member'; , but not someone I speak to often - usually at weddings, funerals and large family gatherings. They are having health problems and probably just sitting at home bored , but I use the email they are sending these to for business and it is really getting to be a problem.


Any suggestions on how to remedy this situation with out offending them?Advice on how to block a family member from emailing, but retain the contact info.?
When you hit the Spam button from a certain email, the other mails from same address are supposed to land on the bulk folder.


But you can manually block mail from specific address.


Note: all mails from that address will be deleted on the way and will never reach your mail box.





How do I block mail from a specific sender? Can I un-block it later?


Yahoo! Mail makes it easy to block unwanted messages from a known address. It's just as easy to remove the block if you want to.





Here's how to add a block to an email address:





Click Options in the upper-right corner of your Yahoo! Mail page.


From the list on the left, click Spam.


In the middle of this page, in the space provided in the ';Blocked Addresses'; section, enter the email address from which you don't want to receive mail.


Click Add.


The address now appears on your list of blocked addresses.


Yahoo! Mail offers up to 500 blocked email addresses. You can see how many of your blocked addresses you're using beside the list – for example, “4 of 500 used”.





You can also un-block addresses whenever you want.





To remove a block from an address:





From the Blocked Addresses list, click the address you wish to remove.


Click Remove beside your the Blocked Addresses list.


After removing an address from your Blocked Addresses list, you'll be able to receive mail from that address.Advice on how to block a family member from emailing, but retain the contact info.?
Set up a filter and have them redirected to a new folder. Create a folder for them, then click Options %26gt; Filters and set one up. You can do one using the ';from'; info. It won't block it, but it will separate it and then you can just mass delete them if you want.





Either that or create another email address and have them use that one.
May I suggest that you open a separate free e-mail account just for personal messages like what you mentioned in your querry. You can then request all your personal contacts to add this new email address for further email messages. You can then keep your other email address free of personal messages thus giving you more option as to when your free to check less important messages at the same time decongesting your email address allocated for business purposes.