Some email systems now won’t mark things as spam. They’ll have a popup window asking if you want them to help you unsubscribe from the shit. I about blew it when I saw that.
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Ubermeisters@lemmy.zip 10 months agoWhy would you issue a warning to a spammer I stead of using the tools as intended, and just marking it as spam anyway? It clearly was. All you did here was pass the buck to someone else now.
PickTheStick@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Ubermeisters@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Ive seen email systems with that, I’ve never seen an email system use that as a substitute for a Spam or junk flag however, I think maybe either you’re confused or have a really odd mail client
dan@upvote.au 10 months ago
Gmail does it. Emails from mailing lists often have a header that specifies an email address you can email to unsubscribe (you just need to send an empty email to the address). Gmail detects this header and asks you if you want to unsubscribe instead of marking as spam. If you do, it sends the unsubscribe email for you.
Ubermeisters@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
It usually a footer, not a header, in my personal experience. Also, the unsibscribe feature in Gmail is not the same as reporting as junk/spam, which Gmail still allows.
Polar@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
I did both, but I wanted my email removed from their system. I hate my spam box being filled up if I can help it.
Ubermeisters@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Understandable. I really doubt emails actually get removed from systems they get sold at that point and kept in the database that’s not actively used.