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This article shows you how to block email forwarding so that you don’t receive emails from your masks in your real inbox. If you want to filter out spam and only get important emails, you can subscribe to Firefox Relay Premium.
If you mark an email from one of your Relay masks as spam, Relay will automatically disable forwarding for that mask to prevent further unwanted messages. You will receive an email notifying you about this, and you can easily re-enable the mask from your Relay dashboard if necessary.
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Create and block promotional emails from a new generated mask
If you are creating a new mask with Relay Premium and want to block promotional emails from the get go, follow these steps:
- Sign in to relay.firefox.com
- Click the button.
- Enter desired mask name text, then click the button.
- Click the Start blocking promotional emails checkbox.
Block email forwarding to your inbox
- Click the Firefox Relay icon
on the toolbar and then click at the bottom of the panel.
- If you don't use the Firefox Relay Extension, you can simply open the Firefox Relay page – https://relay.firefox.com – and sign in if necessary.
- To install the extension, see Install the Firefox Relay extension on Firefox for desktop for Firefox and Install the Firefox Relay extension on Google Chrome for Chrome.
- Find the mask you want to temporarily deactivate.
- Click the downward arrow to expand the options for that mask.
- Under What emails do you want to block? move the slider from None to All to block all emails sent to this mask.
To receive forwarded emails from this mask again, just move the slider from All to None.
Delete an email mask
With a free subscription, you can create up to 5 masks and reuse whenever you need them. You can also permanently delete a mask if you no longer want to use it. You can read the article How to delete an email mask to learn more about mask deletion.
