I use a MacBook Air and my email software is a Microsoft one (I think). Most advertising emails I receive have content, and have a section at the bottom where I can delete my subscription to the subscription or change the frequency of receipt. Some, however, shows up being said to have "no content" (which indeed they do not), and there is no place to go to delete the subscription that I can find. In a number of this type there is an address that I can write a letter to, but I am not (yet) interested in taking the time or using a stamp. Does anyone know a way to stop this?
Unsubscribing to Emails
- Thread starter john parker
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John, they don't want you to unsubscribe.
You might be able to hit reply with the message UNSUBSCRIBE.
You might be able to hit reply with the message UNSUBSCRIBE.
If there's not an easy unsubscribe, I just flag it spam.
This.
If I can't unsubscribe it gets tagged as spam.
If I've never bought anything from them before or visited their site logging in my details, I don't select unsubscribed but treat as spam.
Call me paranoid but I think the unsubscribed button from unknow sites is untrustworthy.
If I've never bought anything from them before or visited their site logging in my details, I don't select unsubscribed but treat as spam.
Call me paranoid but I think the unsubscribed button from unknow sites is untrustworthy.
Are you saying you're getting a completely blank email? Or just some kind of spam/marketing email that has no unsub option listed?
shavefan
I’m not a fan
Same here. I remember reading or hearing somewhere that you should not click the unsubscribe button from unknown email senders.
kelbro
Alfred Spatchcock
Clicking that button tells them that have connected an email address with a 'real' person.
Just mark them as spam and let your email program route them to the junk or trash folder for you.
Just mark them as spam and let your email program route them to the junk or trash folder for you.
I agree. Some I've seen even route to phishing links.
Mark as spam and they wont hit your inbox.
- Thread starter
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I do not see how to mark it as spam! Nor is the preference setting intuitively obvious!
Your being on a Mac I'm not sure I can help much, but in my Windows Live Mail I click to select the message then click Junk. They never hit my inbox again.
Maybe right click the message and Junk/Spam may be in the right click menu?
- Thread starter
- #13
I do see "junk"! I will try more! I have a feeling that I, too, am using an older Windows mail program.
Its been so long since I've used another email client I cant remember, but it will be in there somewhere.
Also if you can't unsubscribe to something besides utilizing the spam filter you can go into settings and block senders.
Are you accessing your email through the mac's built in mail client - "Mail" app - or through the internet browser?
Most mail servers have very effective spam filtering.
Go to your ISP or hosting provider and set up some server side filtering
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Go to your ISP or hosting provider and set up some server side filtering
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For what it's worth (FWIW) I have seen good success by unsubscribing to emails, as this stops them. In the rare case it doesn't, marking as spam works.
I try not to immediately mark new emails as spam as I realize email lists get resold. And I hope it helps spam filters learn faster.
I try not to immediately mark new emails as spam as I realize email lists get resold. And I hope it helps spam filters learn faster.
- Thread starter
- #19
I think what I am using is Windows Live Mail which I brought over to the Mac when I switched from Windows 7. I did discover that "spam" is the same thing as "junk", and have started marking things as junk. Don't know how long it will take me to figure out if I think if that is stopping unsolicited emails.
Some are tenacious lol. I was getting some from a Maria.Tohill@pamperedchef or something. Some political, some not and I set every one as Junk but they kept on coming for quite a while. They did stop though.
