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I don't understand why people down voted you, anyway, how do you know your customers have 'flagged the email as spam!' ?
by tszming 15y ago
I don't understand why people down voted you, anyway, how do you know your customers have 'flagged the email as spam!' ?
- marquis 15y agoMailchimp for example, provides this information. It's one reason why Mailchimp and SendGrid et al are so useful. It pays for itself when we send out a newsletter to thousands of emails.
- ams6110 15y agoStill doesn't answer the question. How does mailchimp know? Do MUAs commonly send some kind of response to the sender when the user flags a message as spam? Or is this something they're getting via webmail services?
- marquis 15y agoThat's a good question I couldn't find the answer for. What I can tell you is what happens as a MailChimp user: if I send out an email and someone clicks the 'this is SPAM' button in their mail client, MailChimp notifies me that this happened so I guess that the email client somehow notifies the sending mail server using the List-Unsubscribe header.
- gizzlon 15y agoI bet this only work for aol.com and a few others.. I highly doubt that Thunderbird & friends notify the sender. Of course It could be some sort of hack, like the image thing.
- shimfish 15y agoIf you register your IP with AOL, they send you individual notices when each user marks your mail as spam. http://postmaster.aol.com/Postmaster.FeedbackLoop.php http://postmaster.aol.com/Postmaster.FeedbackLoop.php
- obtu 15y agoI've occasionally seen GMail ask “do you want us to unsubscribe you as well” when flagging stuff as spam (I refuse, because I don't want to confirm my address to spammers). Perhaps some provider has come up with a way to differentiate “mark as spam” from plain “unsubscribe”, but I do find it surprising. Most likely there's some indirect, aggregate feedback as well.
- deltaqueue 15y agoHe's probably using List-unsubscribe. You can add headers to your emails that give users a way to unsubscribe from your list if they click "mark as spam" (and many do, despite an "unsubscribe" link appearing at the bottom of the email).