I wonder if this is just a shortcut to create a filter. That would make the most sense, at least.
Yep. I think less sophisticated users would be intimidated by creating a filter and this solves for that.
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#22I would like it better if blocked users received undeliverable messages.
As someone who sends email newsletters, I would definitely prefer that too. I don't want to send messages to people who don't want them or aren't going to read them.
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#23This is great! Any intention to standardize these with JMAP perhaps?
Any FastMail employees have anything to say about these new features?
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#24True blocking is when they get a mailer-daemon bounceback though. This is more like hellbanning.
preferable though, no?
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#25I am trying to solve a similar problem but offering unlimited email addresses, you can block any of your address, forward some of them to your regular email, visualize all (or just some) of the addresses in the same page as they were the same address and eliminate an address so that email is undeliverable.
We are in pre-beta, but if you leave your email (of course I won't spam) I will keep you up to date and I will ask your opinion :)
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd assume so. The CAN-SPAM[0] act mandates that the unsubscribe link must not contain any authorization, e.g., you click the link and you're immediately unsubscribed. This is just trading a click in one location for a click in another, but it's a neat feature to not search through the entire email to try to find the unsubscribe link. [0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAN-SPAM_Act_of_2003#Unsubscri...
CAN-SPAM does not actually require one-click unsubscribe, but many senders include it anyway. From the primary source: "Give a return email address or another easy Internet-based way to allow people to communicate their choice [to opt-out] to you. You may create a menu to allow a recipient to opt out of certain types of messages, but you must include the option to stop all commercial messages from you. " https://www.…
You're both kind of right. A one-click unsubscribe is not required, but if you do use a web link for unsubscribe, the form can't require the user to enter any information beyond their email address. (Unsubscribe forms that require you to login are probably violating this law.)
"Reply with the word REMOVE in the subject" is also a CAN-SPAM complaint unsubscribe method, though.
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#27This will actually be a useful feature for me. I consistently get e-mails from a procurement business somewhere half-way across the world that somehow thinks that my gmail address is that of one of their employees. I routinely get CC'd on e-mails containing invoices, BOMs, customer inquiries etc. I've tried reporting as spam, phishing, and even replying to all on message that includes customers of the business to say…
It's definitely more convenient. That's the whole point of the feature. If anyone says this feature isn't a big deal because you can just make a filter, you're wrong. This isn't a technical feature, it's a UX feature. And having good UX makes a technical feature worth usable.
That's a pretty good argument that this is a deal but I remain unconvinced it qualifies as "big"
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#28Does anyone know how the unsubscribe feature works? Does it follow the unsubscribe link in the email, or does it use some other mechanism?
The post says the Unsubscribe feature is coming to Android, but will it be also available in regular Gmail?
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#29Presumably the advantage of this over a standard filter is that blocking (hopefully!) checks SPF/DKIM and verifies that the person being blocked is actually the sender of the email. Simply blocking a From-address would not be effective.