If your Blocked stats card shows a number but you don't remember receiving blocked emails — you're not missing anything. Blocked emails are stopped before they reach your inbox. You won't see them, and that's exactly how it's supposed to work.
What "blocked" means
When a sender is on your blacklist, any email they send to your alias is rejected at the engine level. It never gets forwarded to your destination email address.
The blocked count tracks how many times this happened — how many emails were attempted by blocked senders, not how many you received.
Why your inbox shows nothing
Blocked emails don't appear in your inbox, spam folder, or anywhere else. The engine stops them before forwarding, so there's nothing to show. A higher blocked count is a good sign — it means your blacklist is actively protecting you.
Two different blocked numbers
You'll notice there are two places that show blocked counts, and they can look different:
Stats card (Aliases page / Blacklist page)
- Shows lifetime total blocked from all your blacklist entries combined
- Monthly trend compares this calendar month vs last calendar month
Per-sender entry (Blacklist page list)
- Shows the lifetime blocked count for that specific sender only
- Shows the date that sender last tried to contact you
These are maintained separately, so small differences between them are normal.
The "Last blocked" date
Each blacklist entry shows when that sender last tried to email you. An old date (like January) doesn't mean the entry isn't working — it means that sender hasn't tried recently.
If the date is recent and the count keeps going up, the sender is actively trying to reach you through your aliases.
Monthly trend on the stats card
The trend percentage (like ↑ 100% vs last month) compares how many blocked events happened this calendar month vs last calendar month. If a sender gets blocked twice in May and zero times in April, you'd see ↑ 100%.
For more on how trend percentages work, see How Monthly Trends Work.