Hi Diane Andy is right, sending any response just encourages people you want to go away, it's a negative response, but a response none the less. Best way I have found is to mark then as Spam, then you'll never see messages from then again, unless you look in your Spam folder that is.
On Mon, 28 Nov 2016, 14:09 Andy <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 12:50 AM, Dodo aka Diane) <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi, Gmail Users-- > > First, I know there is no "auto-response" *per se* in Gmail except for > the vacation responder. I have searched Help and the Help Forum for what I > want to do and applied the suggestions I learned, but it hasn't worked > yet. I want to send one sender an automatic message that essentially says > to go away. > > ... > > > This is not an answer to your question directly ... but I would advise > not taking that approach. If someone is bothering you and won't stop, even > a canned response from you might encourage this person to keep e-mailing > you. I think it would be better to ignore the emails. Use a Filter to > delete them as they arrive. > > If you have notified the person of your wishes but the emails haven't > stopped, also consider the possibility of taking legal action. > > By the way, long ago I created a canned response and tested it, and it > worked then. Have not tested it since ... perhaps I should. > > Andy > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Gmail-Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
