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I don’t send a lot of spam complaints generally. Mostly I block and move on. There are some companies, though, that I offer the professional courtesy of sending a complaint or a report to their abuse@ address. Former clients, friends and colleagues generally get that courtesy. The number of ESPs that completely fail to take any action is disappointing. Too many of them can’t even manage the simple courtesy of removing addresses. A few don’t even process bounces correctly and continue to send mail even when getting a spam block or 550 user unknown. Sometimes I’ll reach out to folks who I know work at particular ESPs, although that’s less common these days as everyone seems to be moving companies and I can’t keep track. Often I get an invite to “always send me complaints directly.” That … is not a solution, people. Expecting people who are reporting spam to…
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I’ve talked about unsubscribe practices in more detail before, but I think it’s important enough to call this one out on its own.If your email send platform, CRM, or newsletter tool, includes a “one click unsub” link, you’re going to end up with false positive unsubscribes, and at some point, it’s going to drive you bonkers. I’ve had to deal with stuff like a client’s angry CEO wondering why they’re not getting copies of their own newsletter, only to find that their Barracuda or Microsoft email security service is causing the unsubscribe action, by clicking (following) the unsub link, when checking all the links in every email received, to look for bad stuff. Or if you’re trying to do seedlist-based inbox placement testing and your testing vendor/partner has link checking functionality — when this happens you can end up with false positive indications of spam blocking because of accidentally unsubscribed…
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Learn best practices to improve your unsubscribe email messaging and how to better manage the list of people who have unsubscribed from your marketing emails. The post Email Unsubscribe Best Practices Every Marketer Should Follow appeared first on SendGrid.
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