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> There is absolutely no need to put an unsubscribe link into a transactional email.

Agreed. rsync alluded to it below as well.

'unsubscribe'... from what? If I just bought something from service ABC, and I get an email from ABC saying "you just bought foo from us"... what would an 'unsubscribe' even mean? "Do not ever email me about this purchase again?" "Do not ever email me about future purchases?"

> Do not ever email me about this purchase again

Please send me the order, just don't send me the PDF invoice :)

This actually does cause problems with blocked password resets and things

If I request a password reset, that constitutes an approval to send me that email.

And if I didn't request a password reset ... I'd like to hear about it.

how do you know it's 'you' that requested it? if I requested a password reset to your email... is it spam?

Some systems might just block all outgoing emails to anyone who has clicked unsubscribe which would block password resets as well

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