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Incidentally, if you're looking for a top notch deliverability/ISP relations/best practices/compliance guru, why not think about hiring Mickey Chandler? He's moving on from his current employer, and I'm sure he'd love to hear from you, if you have an opportunity that might be suited to his skill set. Mickey also recently posted about a scenario wherein a message might have been previously considered transactional, but no longer is. What constitutes a transactional message? The FTC explains here. But if the question really is, is an unsubscribe link REQUIRED when the message is transactional, the answer is: No, it is not required.
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I would agree that letting somebody unsubscribe or update their profile settings is probably the most consumer-friendly path you can take. Mickey went on to point out that regardless, it might not be a bad idea to have an unsubscribe link in your email message anyway. So, the sections within CAN-SPAM which mandate the existence of a means to opt-out ((a)(3)) and that requests to be removed be honored ((a)(4)) don't apply at all." In fact, it goes as far as to exempt transactional messages from the law almost entirely ((2)(B)), although they still can't falsify header information ((a)(1)). As a general rule, CAN-SPAM only covers marketing messages. " The strict answer, according to CAN-SPAM, is: the law doesn't care. This means they are crucial in stopping users from receiving fraudulent phishing emails. A good email gateway will block 99.99 of spam emails, and will remove any email that contains any malicious links or attachments. But, to make sure I'm not crazy, I reached out to my good friend Mickey Chandler (of Spamtacular fame and deliverability consultant extraordinare), to make sure I wasn't off base. Email gateways are used to filter out harmful and malicious emails, and quarantine them automatically away from user inboxes. Under US law, transactional messages are not required to contain an unsubscribe link. I pointed out that, if I recall correctly, the bank is correct. Then send the encrypted email as you usually do in Outlook, by clicking the Send button. He contacted the bank, and the bank brushed him off, saying an unsubscribe link was not required. In an email message you are composing, switch to the Options tab > Permissions group and click the Encrypt button. Taking this action might take your name off the list immediately, or it could take you to a website where you have to click a confirmation button.
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They had sent him a transactional message, and he took umbrage at the fact that the message did not have a way to unsubscribe from future messages. How to Unsubscribe From Spam Emails If a reputable company sent you a spam email, you can unsubscribe from that company's messages by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of the email. A reader contacted me the other day, showing me an email message he had received from his bank.