# Enable blocking sender and viewing contact info via long-press on email list

**URL:** <https://forum.delta.chat/t/enable-blocking-sender-and-viewing-contact-info-via-long-press-on-email-list/5326>\
**Category:** Feature Proposal\
**Tags:** classic-mailbox, user-interface, android\
**Created:** [May 29, 2026, 9:35am UTC](https://forum.delta.chat/t/enable-blocking-sender-and-viewing-contact-info-via-long-press-on-email-list/5326 "2026-05-29T09:35:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![imysl0](https://forum.delta.chat/user_avatar/forum.delta.chat/imysl0/32/2169_2.png) [@imysl0](https://forum.delta.chat/u/imysl0)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2026, 9:35am UTC](https://forum.delta.chat/t/enable-blocking-sender-and-viewing-contact-info-via-long-press-on-email-list/5326/1 "2026-05-29T09:35:23Z")

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Currently, I want to block a contact. To do this, I need to open our chat, tap on their profile picture, go into the settings menu, and find the option to block the contact. Normally, this works fine. However, whenever I receive a certain email that I cannot open—it crashes the app as soon as I try—I have to delete it to restore normal function. The issue is that this spam email may keep coming every now and then. Since I can’t open it, I can’t block the sender either, and I can only keep deleting it. Therefore, I think it would be helpful if there were a way to long-press an email on the main interface to directly view the sender’s contact information. That way, I could block the spam sender without having to open the email. Thank you very much.

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**Author:** ![ian](https://forum.delta.chat/user_avatar/forum.delta.chat/ian/32/3164_2.png) [@ian](https://forum.delta.chat/u/ian)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2026, 9:44am UTC](https://forum.delta.chat/t/enable-blocking-sender-and-viewing-contact-info-via-long-press-on-email-list/5326/2 "2026-05-29T09:44:39Z")

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Could you please state the platform and version of your app?

Is blocking unencrypted messages or setting up a chatmail account an option for you?

Also, could you perhaps open a separate topic to help debug why that message is causing Delta Chat to crash? (Where we could discuss your client logs, dmesg-logcat, minimized reproduction of a similar message, etc)

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**Author:** ![imysl0](https://forum.delta.chat/user_avatar/forum.delta.chat/imysl0/32/2169_2.png) [@imysl0](https://forum.delta.chat/u/imysl0)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2026, 7:54am UTC](https://forum.delta.chat/t/enable-blocking-sender-and-viewing-contact-info-via-long-press-on-email-list/5326/3 "2026-05-31T07:54:02Z")

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> [@ian](#):
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> Could you please state the platform and version of your app?
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> Is blocking unencrypted messages or setting up a chatmail account an option for you?

Thank you very much. I’m using the Android version 2.49.0. The issue is caused by an unencrypted email—specifically, a company’s advertising email that seems to send a new promotion roughly every two weeks. I’d like to block it directly.

My thought on implementing a feature to block contacts without opening the email is this: while achieving 100% compatibility with HTML emails may take a long time, the approach of “blocking contacts without opening the email” can significantly improve the overall usability of Delta Chat itself.

When new advertising emails come in, I’ll start a new thread to provide further feedback on related issues.