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That shouldn't stop you from including such a link in the header and keep the non-oneclick link in the footer. Nowadays, emails are forwarded embedded, not as EML attachments, so the header link wouldn't be included. You have to jump through hoops to forward as EML.

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Yes, that's what we do. We have the one-click through the client at the top, and the link at the bottom takes you to a more robust "preference center" that combines preferences from multiple systems (marketing, sales, product, etc).

That doesn't stop people from sending in a spate of complaint emails every single day. But this is kind of the local minimum we have found and no one really wants to mess with it at this point.

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