Tell me more ×
Web Applications Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for power users of web applications. It's 100% free, no registration required.
up vote 6 down vote favorite

I'm not looking to block senders, I'm looking to block recipients. For instance, I've occasionally hit Reply and written an email to an address of the type do-not-reply@domain.com, no-reply@domain.com, or bounces@domain.com, and then wondered why I never got a response, only to see that they require responses through a web form or something.

There are also some addresses who might be CC'ed on a message, but who I would never want to reply to, for instance.

I'd like to make a filter for addresses like this, so that if I try to send to them, it either aborts and moves it to the Drafts folder, or it gets redirected to myself, etc.

share|improve this question
1  
How about a label ("dev/null" perhaps), using a high-contrast color, to which all inbound mail from these sorts of addresses would get added to? It's not blocking, but it would probably get your attention. – Al Everett Oct 28 '11 at 16:53

1 Answer

up vote 3 down vote

Filters apply to incoming mail, not outgoing. So as of now - you can't do anything to prevent yourself from replying back to these.

The closest you can do is create a label titled "do-not-reply-to-these-mails" which is bright red in colour as a reminder

share|improve this answer

Your Answer

 
discard

By posting your answer, you agree to the privacy policy and terms of service.

Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged or ask your own question.