How can I stop spam emails - when they're coming from my sister?

[gritsar]

With the exception of my Dad, who lives in Florida, I have no more than the rare contact with my biological family back east. There's a valid reason for this. Let's just say it's necessary for my mental health.

I keep my sisters email addresses in my email address book in case something happens with my dad, particularly the sister that lives close to him, and they aren't able to reach me by other means. We'll call her Sister A.
Sister A has apparently started selling avon. Now not only does she know that I don't wear makeup, have never worn makeup in my life, but even if I did, I wouldn't want to pay shipping for the stuff. She has started sending me several Avon emails a day to my account.
The thing is, I rarely get emails to one particular email box. I don't give the address out to very many. When I do get email in that box it's usually something of some significance. It's a pain to me because I don't even go past the sign-in page if I see that I don't have any messages in the box.
I can't say anything to her because she'll go whining to my dad if I do. I can't delete her name from my address book (sending all future emails from her to the spam folder), because she may actually send me something containing important information about my dad.
I'm not very tech savvy. Is there a way to filter her emails?

 

[DuckLady]

I have an uncle who sends me jokes.
I created an Uncle folder and I set up my email to send anything from his email address to this folder. Every so often I go through and read a bit, then delete. I adore him and wouldn't hurt his feelings for the world, but just don't want my in box clogged with jokes.

If they are official Avon emails, you can unsubscribe at the bottom.

If you don't care about hurting her feelings, tell her to knock it off.

 

[MoSo]

What email software do you use? You should be able to set up an inbox for email from her, so that all of her emails go one place. Then you can open it up once every couple of weeks to see if it has anything that's not junk and delete everything else.

 

[ranchhand]

Are the emails coming from her Avon website? At the bottom of the emails there should be a link to unsubscribe, in the fine print.

If not, tell Dad first, then tell her to stop. That way, he'll hear your side first and it will defuse her whining if he says yes, she told me you were spamming her.

Good luck, aren't families fun?

 

[hunterjumper999]

if its aol you can filter by keyword.

type in Avon.

 

[gritsar]

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Not!!!!

Unfortunately, Dad is 89 and he is still very confused about what an 'email' is. In fact, Dad called yesterday and said something about poor poor sister A, she has fibromyalgia and I'm so mean, I didn't answer her "call" when she wanted to ask me about fibro. and how I deal with it.
I very carefully, very slowly explained to him that she didn't "call" me, she emailed and that I had answered her email promptly. Maybe she's automatically deleting MY emails and never saw my reply.

ETA: I will look at these avon emails closer. If they are coming directly from Avon, I will unsubscribe. If they are coming from her, I'll try and make her a folder. I'll have fun coming up with a name for her (folder).

 

[HEChicken]

Most email providers allow you to add a "filter" so that you can apply a special rule to emails containing a specific word, phrase or sender. For e.g., you could set up a filter that would send any email containing the word "avon" to your trash. That way, any emails that come from your sister containing news of your dad will still arrive in your inbox, but when she sends you stuff about Avon, you'll never see it. Depending on what email provider you use, look under the "options" menu, or look for anything that says rules or filters under options, preferences etc. Once you've found WHERE you do it, setting up the filter will be fairly straightforward/common-sense.

 

[gritsar]

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Thanks