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I left linkedin a long time ago but I still get emails when someone wants to connect. I must have opted out of those a dozen times! Nope, still get 'em.

Also, pedant speaking here, "in one click" isn't really an accurate description of this process.

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Just mark as spam, life's too short

Gmail's spam filter is so good that it even knows that I consider "LinkedIn Today" emails spam, but I still want to read the ones about my network.

I hope Google shared this sort of information with LinkedIn. "Your daily emails are reliably considered spam, by people who actually want to use your services."

They do, when a user marks an email as spam gmail pings the sender back and notifies them.

I imagine this is most useful for the bulk email sending services.

gmail does not have a feedback loop

I think you are right, I thought I had read about the feature somewhere but now I cannot find any mention of it.

Thank you for calling me out.

i wish they did have a feedback loop. i have a catch-all domain and an employee that was terminated with us left so now I get the barrage of emails to a general box for his LI account.

well he never updated his linkedin to a new email and you have to sign in to unsubscribe. well, i don't want to reset his password because i can see he still uses the LI and there is no way to stop these emails. seems like making it impossible to unsubscribe would violate CAN-SPAM.

Gmail certainly does: it implements DKIM.

DKIM is not a feedback loop. A feedback loop is when someone hits spam on one of your emails, the provider lets you know what message caused the user to hit spam. If you have a unique message id or something else in the email encoded in you can tell who it was and not send them any more emails.

Actually since Gmail now has three tabs and the linkedin emails end up in the 'social' folder, it is less of a bother. Once in a while you go in and mass delete.

As someone who keeps their inbox clean and pristine, your post just made me shudder...

Even better, create a filter to mark all of them as spam automatically.

I have postfix reject anything from invitations@linkedin.com.

Though requires running your own mail server.

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