That ( ^ ), really - looking to set up a rule to mark any received email that contains the word "unsubscribe" with a tag that I can later sort for and just batch delete.
What have I missed? (I don't think order confirmation etc ever say that at the bottom, do they?)
For extra jeopardy, this is going onto MrsPants' email account 😬
Thankingyouuuu
It depends. Looking at mine, some of them yes, don't want to automatically delete, but plenty there I would.
Have you tried searching all your messages for unsubscribe in message body and looking at what turns up?
An option might be to create a folder and move any messages with 'unsubscribe' in the body to it. A second filter to delete them after n days so there's a chance to review before deletion.
I wouldn't - having worked at the other end of bulk emails some email providers are very reluctant to allow you to send without an unsubscribe link, even if they aren't required under PECR/GDPR.
Well, applied a filter:
Includes: "unsubscribe" OR "manage what you receive from us" OR "opt-out"
Doesn't have: "Order #" OR "Order Number #" OR "Order Confirmation" OR "Your Order"
Checked the first thousand results* and there's nothing in there that I'd want to keep in the longer term (initially didn't use the "doesn't have" bit and that found a very few (eBay and Merlin, notably)) so I'm going to go for it on mine and hers
*1,000 results covers only the past three weeks or so ! 🤯
Commenting to subscribe as I expect others have some genius ideas.
current gmail is 20+ years old and in need of a clear out!
Also subscribe. Tried creating some rules in apple mail to auto delete stuff and made a right mess of it (didn’t tick the “AND” box so one of the rules just deleted almost all my mails.
*1,000 results covers only the past three weeks or so ! 🤯
You better smash that unsubscribe button!
With gmail in the web browser on desktop PC, there's an 'unsubscribe' popup when the mouse hovers over emails that gmail can unsubscribe from without you having to open the email and find the link. There's also a 'Manage Subscriptions' view, look down the left hand side, click 'more>>' and it's under that. The manage subscriptions view doesn't catch that much however.
If your boat is filling with water, you need boards not buckets.
I manage this stuff with a combination of being extra careful to select the "stick your marketing up your arse" option when buying things etc in the first place (in person as well as online); unsubscribing from the more prolific but still broadly legitimate mailing lists which slip through the cracks; and ignoring the rest because...
current gmail is 20+ years old and in need of a clear out!
... who cares. So long as you're not running out of mailbox storage space (likely better fixed by sorting by size and then deleting a dozen mails with large attachments), when do you ever see the last 19 years eleven months worth? Screw it, life's too short and it would be perverse indeed if Google's email offering didn't have a search facility.
I wouldn't - having worked at the other end of bulk emails some email providers are very reluctant to allow you to send without an unsubscribe link, even if they aren't required under PECR/GDPR.
Same - sending bulk emails is my job and some stuff that you wouldn't want to miss, like, "Here are the directions to the event you signed up for," has unsubscribe links in the footer.
In my own inbox I'm just trigger happy with the unsubscribe button on promotional mails. I shudder to think how someone has let themselves get 50 marketing mails a day!
I wouldn't - having worked at the other end of bulk emails some email providers are very reluctant to allow you to send without an unsubscribe link, even if they aren't required under PECR/GDPR.
Same - sending bulk emails is my job and some stuff that you wouldn't want to miss, like, "Here are the directions to the event you signed up for," has unsubscribe links in the footer.
I'm amazed at how poor many companies are with their email marketing strategy. There are clothing companies that I'd genuinely like to hear from when they've launched a new product or are having a sale. But that would probably be about 6 mails a year, and they send mails every few days - how many pairs of trousers do you think I'm going to buy? So as a result I unsubscribe.
In terms of filtering, what I was trying to do was shrink my mailbox down by getting rid of older stuff. But not everything. I kind of think, based on EU 'fit for purpose' rule that all product purchase stuff thats' over 5 years old could be deleted safely. And all marketing messages (mailing list stuff) more than a year old (how many events do you get directions to or buy tickets for that are more than a year out.). Maybe make that 18 months to be on the safe side (early bird festival tickets bought day after festival)
I'm amazed at how poor many companies are with their email marketing strategy.
Thread diversion but, as a sender of bulk email, we did a study where we got loads of the staff to forward their "unsolicited email" to a special internal address then we anonymised it and tracked how often organisations in different sectors sent emails. The idea was to see how we compared to similar companies (middle to low end as it turned out). Fashion was the most prolific by a mile, sometimes sending 3 or 4 emails a day..
Obviously our participants were a self selecting sample of a fairly limited demographic, and we didn't know how they had interacted with the sending organisation to generate the email but even so there were some clear trends.
And all marketing messages (mailing list stuff) more than a year old (how many events do you get directions to or buy tickets for that are more than a year out.)
Yeah, that's what I'm looking to do - label them with "can delete" and then do a cull every year or so, leaving about the past 12 months' messages in situ