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You can stop Facebook emails in Settings under Notifications, then Email.

Published: 21 October 2026

Last updated: 21 October 2026

Facebook’s help center puts email settings under Settings & privacy, then Notifications, then Email. It also publishes the domains its mail can come from, which is what makes the Gmail filter below reliable.

A filter on facebookmail.com sorts Facebook's notifications. Batmail's rules sort the rest by what they say.

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Facebook's email settings are under Notifications, then Email.

  1. Click your profile picture in the top right of Facebook.
  2. Select Settings & privacy, then click Settings.
  3. Click Notifications on the left.
  4. Scroll down and select Email.
  5. Adjust how often you get email notifications and what they are about.

Steps from Facebook Help Center: Adjust your email notifications from Facebook, read 21 October 2026.

Source: Facebook Help Center, read 21 October 2026.

If more than one email address is linked to your account, Facebook sends notifications to your primary one. The same screen lets you pick which address is primary. If you do not have a Facebook account, Facebook says you can opt out by clicking the Unsubscribe link at the bottom of the email.

Facebook says its mail only comes from seven domains, and its notifications use facebookmail.com.

Facebook’s page on telling real emails from fake ones says any correspondence from Facebook or Meta will only come from one of these domains or their subdomains, such as support.facebook.com or business.fb.com. Its advice for notification emails that go missing is to add the @facebookmail.com domain to your safe senders list, which is why that domain is the one to filter.

Source: Facebook Help Center, Check if an email is really from Facebook, read 21 October 2026.

A filter on facebookmail.com takes Facebook's notification emails out of the inbox.

Paste this into the Gmail search box

from:(facebookmail.com)

Open this filter in the Gmail filter generator

Choose Skip the Inbox (Archive it) and a label rather than Delete it. Facebook’s own help describes security emails, such as a request to change your password, as coming from its listed domains, and a label keeps them one click away. To take in more of the domains Facebook lists, join them inside the brackets with OR, for example from:(facebookmail.com OR facebook.com).

Save it with Show search options, then Create filter, as in Google’s steps.

Facebook lists the emails it recently sent you, so you can check that one is real.

  1. Go to facebook.com/recent_emails/security, or click your profile picture, then Settings & privacy, then Settings.
  2. Select Accounts Center, then Password and security.
  3. Below Security checks, select Recent emails.

Steps from Facebook Help Center: Check if an email is really from Facebook, read 21 October 2026.

The SECURITY tab shows security emails, such as a request to change your password, from the last year. The OTHER EMAILS tab shows any other emails Facebook sent in the last two days. Facebook adds that when an email contains a special link or a security code, it may hide that information in your settings, so you need to be able to log in to your email account to see it.

These are the questions people ask next.

How do I stop Facebook notification emails?

Click your profile picture, choose Settings & privacy, then Settings, click Notifications on the left, scroll down and select Email. There you can adjust how often you get email notifications and what they are about.

I do not have a Facebook account. How do I stop their emails?

Facebook says that if you do not have an account, you can opt out by clicking the Unsubscribe link at the bottom of the email.

How can I tell an email really came from Facebook?

Facebook says its mail only comes from fb.com, facebook.com, facebookmail.com, instagram.com, meta.com, metamail.com and global.metamail.com, or a subdomain of them. You can also open facebook.com/recent_emails/security to see the emails Facebook sent you recently.

Which domain do Facebook's notification emails use?

Facebook's own advice for missing notification emails is to add the @facebookmail.com domain to your safe senders list, which is why the filter on this page matches facebookmail.com.

Should the filter delete Facebook's emails?

Choose Skip the Inbox and a label rather than Delete it. Facebook's security emails, such as a request to change your password, come from its listed domains too, and a label keeps them one search away.

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