Need help/advice - email problem......

[Liz]

I'm having an email problem and need some help.

Someone who emails me often with photos - and sometimes forwards emails he gets is having a problem with his email account. However, that problem is effecting people he sends his emails to including me.

Yesterday and this morning he sent me 2 different emails. The emails multiplied and I've gotten about 50 of each email. I have a gmail account and usually when I don't want to receive something in my inbox, I select it and put it under "report spam" and it immediately goes into the spam file. Normally all the gmails that come in with that return address automatically go into the spam file after reporting it. NOT THIS ONE. The new ones keep coming into my inbox even after reporting them numerous times.

I HOPE this is not a virus.....how can I stop these from coming in? About every 30-60 seconds I get another one.

ETA: I think they stopped. I had emailed this person and asked him to delete the email at his end. About 10 minutes later the emails stopped so I don't know if it's because he deleted it. He had told me last night when I emailed him about the first problem that his (speedfactory) site has problems sometimes that causes these glitches.

Also I just figured out how to "block" emails - and put a block on his name just now.

In the meantime, I still need some input about what the source could be - could it be a virus - or just a glitch that I don't need to worry about. Should I keep the block on his email address? He is an 83 y/o man that loves to send his photos to people, but he also forwards these emails he finds interesting that others send him. I feel badly for him as he is lonely and photography is his only interest so I don't like to block his name.

Thanks!

Liz