Yahoo List-Unsub header
Last week some folks were mentioning a spike in unsubscribes from Yahoo. This is being investigated.
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Indictments in Yahoo data breach
- laura
- Mar 15, 2017
Today the US government unsealed an indictment against 2 Russian agents and 2 hackers for breaking into Yahoo’s servers and stealing personal information. The information gathered during the hack was used to target government officials, security employees and private individuals.
Email is so central to our online identity. Compromise an email account and you can get access to social media, and other accounts. Email is the key to the kingdom.
Microsoft using the List-Unsubscribe header
- laura
- Feb 1, 2018
An interesting observation from Brian Curry about how Microsoft is using the List Unsubscribe header in their interface. The short version is that Microsoft is only supporting mailto: links. They’re ignoring any List-Unsubscribe links that are a URL.
Here are some screenshots. When the sender is using a List-Unsubscribe <http://> header, Microsoft states that there is no information on how to help the user unsubscribe, so the offer to block the sender instead. Like in these two messages.
When the List-Unsubscribe header uses a mailto: link, Microsoft uses completely different language in the popup and does let the user know any future mail will go to the junk folder.
Yahoo disabled forwarding
- laura
- Oct 12, 2016
Al posted about this over on his blog earlier this week. Yahoo has disabled the ability to forward email from one Yahoo account to an email account on a different system.
There is, of course, all sorts of speculation as to why forwarding has been disabled including speculation this has to do with holding on to accounts during the Verizon purchase. It’s certainly possible this is the case.
However, forwarding email is hard. Forwarding email on a large scale can result in spam blocks and delivery problems. It’s such an issue M3AAWG published a forwarding best practices document. It’s possible that Yahoo is making some changes on the back end to better implement the best practice recommendations. I don’t know, but it’s possible that Yahoo is telling the truth that they’re improving technology.