Block and Unsubscribe

#1

Post by xpressyoo » Wed, Sep 23, 2015, 2:35 PM UTC

Block and Unsubscribe
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Re: Block and Unsubscribe

#2

Post by reustle » Wed, Sep 23, 2015, 2:41 PM UTC

I wonder if this is just a shortcut to create a filter. That would make the most sense, at least.

Re: Block and Unsubscribe

#3

Post by byoung2 » Wed, Sep 23, 2015, 2:41 PM UTC

Does anyone know how the unsubscribe feature works? Does it follow the unsubscribe link in the email, or does it use some other mechanism?

Re: Block and Unsubscribe

#4

Post by danielrw7 » Wed, Sep 23, 2015, 2:42 PM UTC

What happens when you later need to see emails from that email address again? Are the emails saved somewhere?

Re: Block and Unsubscribe

#5

Post by hesselink » Wed, Sep 23, 2015, 2:42 PM UTC

danielrw7 wrote: post #4

What happens when you later need to see emails from that email address again? Are the emails saved somewhere?

It says they go to Spam, so I assume it will be treated like other spam (autodelete after 30 days, IIRC).

Re: Block and Unsubscribe

#6

Post by wnevets » Wed, Sep 23, 2015, 2:44 PM UTC

byoung2 wrote: post #3

Does anyone know how the unsubscribe feature works? Does it follow the unsubscribe link in the email, or does it use some other mechanism?

I believe it uses a header the sender includes with the email

http://www.list-unsubscribe.com/

Re: Block and Unsubscribe

#7

Post by kohanz » Wed, Sep 23, 2015, 2:45 PM UTC

This 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 "I'm not who you think I am and you probably don't want strangers seeing these e-mails", all to no avail and these messages just keep ending up in my inbox. They're not always from the same person (it's a mid-sized company with varied customers).

Now I can just block them. I guess I could have used filters to do that, but this seems more convenient.

Re: Block and Unsubscribe

#8

Post by organsnyder » Wed, Sep 23, 2015, 2:46 PM UTC

Hope this makes its way into the Inbox app as well. That app was announced with great fanfare, but it is still missing some key features (such as composing an email to a group) that are present in the regular app.

Re: Block and Unsubscribe

#9

Post by danielrw7 » Wed, Sep 23, 2015, 2:46 PM UTC

hesselink wrote: post #5

danielrw7 wrote: post #4

What happens when you later need to see emails from that email address again? Are the emails saved somewhere?

It says they go to Spam, so I assume it will be treated like other spam (autodelete after 30 days, IIRC).

OK I see that now. Thanks

Re: Block and Unsubscribe

#10

Post by DaCapoo » Wed, Sep 23, 2015, 2:47 PM UTC

byoung2 wrote: post #3

Does anyone know how the unsubscribe feature works? Does it follow the unsubscribe link in the email, or does it use some other mechanism?

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...