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Synchro

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  1. comment
    Comment #38082955

    Get a grip. So you would consider twitter and Facebook notifications you have explicitly requested as spam? I also run a social network with 20k users that is equally accessible ov…

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    Comment #38082134

    This is exactly what the list-unsubscribe-post header from RFC8058 provides: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8058 . The unsubscribe button that gmail, Apple Mail and others displ…

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    Comment #38082071

    Even gmail's own marketing messages (that I never asked for!) end up in my spam folder. If google can't even reliably send emails to themselves I don't know how they expect anyone …

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    Comment #38082059

    One of the key problems is that both gmail and Yahoo UIs actively encourage users to report messages as spam rather than unsubscribing. Yahoo is particularly bad at this; it's comm…

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    Comment #38081990

    None of that seems new. What would be new is if both gmail and Yahoo provided any means of allowing legit bulk senders to actually send properly. The one-click unsubscribe is from …

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    Comment #13269600

    That doesn't help - user input is already validated by default in PHPMailer - the problem is that a valid email address can also be an attack string in a shell context, and bugs in…

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    Comment #13269577

    This is incorrect. Input sanitisation is not the problem here - PHPMailer sanitises and validates email addresses well enough. The problem is that a valid, sanitised email address …

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    Comment #9366782

    It all sounds very interesting, however, the tone of the web site comes across like some crappy download accelerator. When you follow the "nerdy details" link you don't get anythin…