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I personally found out that it's easier and faster to train my spam filter to move these mails into the spam folder. (I'm using claws-mail with bogofilter, whic
by jonathanstrange 5y ago
I personally found out that it's easier and faster to train my spam filter to move these mails into the spam folder. (I'm using claws-mail with bogofilter, which works quite well.)
Whenever I have to interact with a company, I check the spam folder for their replies.
The majority of mails in my spam folder is html mail.
- zaarn 5y agoThe majority of mails in my spam folder is plaintext mail. Second place are the extremely malformed HTML mails. Almost any wellformed HTML mail I receive is solicited at minimum. I can recommend using the unsubscribe link if you forgot to uncheck the newsletter checkbox during registration. Alternatively send them a mail to A) remind them of the SPAM-CAN act or your local equivalent legislation and B) that they should delete your mail from the newsletter. That works almost always, if not you can always threaten legal action (where I live, that's an easy 600€ of profit in a courtroom).
- stjohnswarts 5y agoIt's safer as well. Some (most?) of those "unsubscribe" links have a unique ID hooked in with your email in some database so they know that they have a hit and can send more email to you.
- zaarn 5y agoWell, they need something to be able to tell which email to remove from their DB too. Not all is as sinister as it looks. The simply solution is to just can any senders that don't respond to unsubscribe requests. But those will be just as bad in plaintext as in HTML, so I don't see why Plaintext means it's not spam, they can do the same thing Plaintext.