4 ms·
That's what bounces are for. If email is deliverable, it is going to an "active" account. There are several mailing lists I retain for posterity, since I've see
by microcolonel 9y ago
That's what bounces are for. If email is deliverable, it is going to an "active" account. There are several mailing lists I retain for posterity, since I've seen a good handful of them simply disappear along with the archives.
Maybe they should limit this measure only to receivers which have a known reputation of downgrading senders of unopened mail.
- thristian 9y agoConsider a user who just keeps clicking "mark as junk" until he stops seeing Mozilla mails, instead of unsubscribing. Or an overzealous system that marked a Mozilla mail as junk once, and nobody complained, so it keeps doing it. The user's account still exists and mail can still be delivered so there's no bounce response, but each mail Mozilla sends will be treated as evidence that Mozilla is spamming.
- janci 9y agoIsn't this what "List-Unsubscribe" header is for? The email client should display Unsubscribe option instead of Mark as junk or offer to unsubscribe first.
- cesarb 9y agoThat's equivalent to following a link on the email, and it's a well known recommendation that you should never follow links from spam emails. That said, gmail does offer to follow the unsubscribe link for you when you mark an email as junk.
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]
- developer2 9y agoThe major players tend not to bounce emails. They accept all mail at the edge, and then blackhole it once it's actually looked at by the backend.