Block and Unsubscribe

&gt; That’s why you can now block specific email addresses in Gmail [...] Future mail will go to the spam folder (and you can always unblock in Settings).<p>It&#x27;s nice to have a one-click button for it, but this was already available by configuring a filter. You just need to select all emails from a particular address and then choose to always mark them as spam or send them directly into the trash. From the headline I was thinking that they changed it so that you could keep email from an address from ever being delivered to your account in any form.

A nice fix for the companies that, either by malice or incompetence, use one regex for their original email field and then another for the email field used to unsubscribe. IOW, if you ordered something, used &quot;foobar+musiciansfriend@gmail.com&quot; (which Musician&#x27;s Friend takes just fine), then went to unsubscribe, the email field regex for <i>that</i> screen will complain about the &quot;+&quot;. Off to the spam bucket you go, Musician&#x27;s Friend, and my purchase dollars now go to Sweetwater.

Hilton hotels, can&#x27;t unsubscribe because of account login forced. This is my new fix!

Does anyone know how the unsubscribe feature works? Does it follow the unsubscribe link in the email, or does it use some other mechanism?

This will actually be a useful feature for me. I consistently get e-mails from a procurement business somewhere half-way across the world that somehow thinks that my gmail address is that of one of their employees. I routinely get CC&#x27;d on e-mails containing invoices, BOMs, customer inquiries etc. I&#x27;ve tried reporting as spam, phishing, and even replying to all on message that includes customers of the business to say &quot;I&#x27;m not who you think I am and you probably don&#x27;t want strangers seeing these e-mails&quot;, all to no avail and these messages just keep ending up in my inbox. They&#x27;re not always from the same person (it&#x27;s a mid-sized company with varied customers).<p>Now I can just block them. I guess I could have used filters to do that, but this seems more convenient.

I wonder if this is just a shortcut to create a filter. That would make the most sense, at least.

Hope this makes its way into the Inbox app as well. That app was announced with great fanfare, but it is still missing some key features (such as composing an email to a group) that are present in the regular app.

Speaking of spam, the wedding industry is the worst offender I&#x27;ve ever seen; worse than porn websites. I&#x27;ve had my email address web spider-able for many years, but never seen as much spam as I have while planning a wedding. These venues and vendors take your information and sell it 2 seconds later to anyone and everyone. One venue, for example, I emailed to set up a visit and meeting. This wasn&#x27;t some web form, it was me emailing them directly. Suddenly I&#x27;m subscribed to their newsletter. That was quite novel; they now rot in my spam folder.<p>Beyond that, after all this contact with venues, vendors, and bridal shows I&#x27;m now being bombarded with email spam, text spam, and worst of all phone calls from scam artists. The last one in particular is disturbing and makes it clear that these wedding related companies are selling information like there&#x27;s no tomorrow. Disgusting.

This is great! Any intention to standardize these with JMAP perhaps?<p>Any FastMail employees have anything to say about these new features?

I would like it better if blocked users received undeliverable messages.

How is it blocking the person, when email from the person goes directly to spam? Isn&#x27;t it same as marking the email from that person as spam or creating a filter to move to spam folder.

I wonder if these features will be available for Google Inbox on iOS.

True blocking is when they get a mailer-daemon bounceback though. This is more like hellbanning.

This will probably help Google to decide whether some email someone marked as spam is actual spam or just something the user didn&#x27;t like to receive.

that&#x27;s a huge gif (embedded on the post):<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;4.bp.blogspot.com&#x2F;-WF4v__O9Tbg&#x2F;VfySrow-OPI&#x2F;AAAAAAAABxI&#x2F;NouiJxI7wBo&#x2F;s1600&#x2F;Block.gif" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;4.bp.blogspot.com&#x2F;-WF4v__O9Tbg&#x2F;VfySrow-OPI&#x2F;AAAAAAAABx...</a> -&gt; 1.369.049 bytes (1,4 MB on disk)

A bit unrelated, but Google and other companies have been using a lot more gifs in blog posts lately. I find my eyes have a harder time keeping my position in the text, and I keep losing my place&#x2F;getting distracted. Any others feel the same way?

Presumably the advantage of this over a standard filter is that blocking (hopefully!) checks SPF&#x2F;DKIM and verifies that the person being blocked is actually the sender of the email. Simply blocking a From-address would not be effective.

I am trying to solve a similar problem but offering unlimited email addresses, you can block any of your address, forward some of them to your regular email, visualize all (or just some) of the addresses in the same page as they were the same address and eliminate an address so that email is undeliverable.<p>We are in pre-beta, but if you leave your email (of course I won&#x27;t spam) I will keep you up to date and I will ask your opinion :)<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mailroad.co&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mailroad.co&#x2F;</a>

This just seems to be the same as creating a filter. What would be really cool would be if it bounced messages from people you &quot;blocked&quot;... that would be something!

This looks great! I&#x27;d really love to see Google and Microsoft stop people from registering a new account to send spam to my accounts. If my humble Postfix&#x2F;Spamassassin configuration can correctly identify them as spam; I&#x27;d expect Google and Microsoft to be able to do the same and stop those messages before they are sent, particularly when they have virus document attachments. I just got another one yesterday.

I&#x27;ve seen that feature before, when I was adding email to spam. Google would then ask If I want unsubscribe from given list.

I just write filters that sent directly to spam or delete. I&#x27;ve been doing it for years.

If I recall correctly, in the early days of the Internets that used to be block (ban) and kick

I&#x27;ve been getting 2-3 emails per year from a recruiting company. Each time I respond telling them to &quot;REMOVE ME&quot;, but never hear back.<p>This feature will help, but does leave me feeling like no justice has been done.

LNKD is down 1%. Related or not, either way, good riddance.

What happens when you later need to see emails from that email address again? Are the emails saved somewhere?

Ah, finally a solution for paypal.<p>I&#x27;ve unsubscribed from their mailing lists more times than I can remember.

Is this very different from the same feature Hotmail has had since 2011?

I like to call this the &quot;father in law&quot; feature.