Off-topic, but a bug I recently filed against Gmail:
I didn't want Gmail sending my full name to spammers, so I set my "display name" to just my email address. Thus when I send mail it's as: emailaddress <emailaddress> instead of MyRealName <emailaddress>.
However: when I flag something as spam, and Gmail (un)helpfully asks "Do you want to Unsubscribe & Mark as Spam?", when I say "yes unsubscribe", then -- somehow -- it sends that "Unsubscribe" email using my REAL NAME and not the display-name that is used for normal outbound mail. So in the end the behaviour is precisely backwards from what I would want.
My conclusion is to never ever use their "Unsusbcribe & mark as spam" anti-feature, instead I have to just mark anything I don't want as spam. Sigh.
I am getting a LOT of spam lately that annoyingly has false Unsubscribe links being used to collect data. The world is an evil place, and Gmail is not very helpful at blocking that.
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Off-topic, but a bug I recently filed against Gmail:
I didn't want Gmail sending my full name to spammers, so I set my "display name" to just my email address. Thus when I send mail it's as: emailaddress <emailaddress> instead of MyRealName <emailaddress>.
However: when I flag something as spam, and Gmail (un)helpfully asks "Do you want to Unsubscribe & Mark as Spam?", when I say "yes unsubscribe", then -- somehow -- it sends that "Unsubscribe" email using my REAL NAME and not the display-name that is used for normal outbound mail. So in the end the behaviour is precisely backwards from what I would want.
My conclusion is to never ever use their "Unsusbcribe & mark as spam" anti-feature, instead I have to just mark anything I don't want as spam. Sigh.
I am getting a LOT of spam lately that annoyingly has false Unsubscribe links being used to collect data. The world is an evil place, and Gmail is not very helpful at blocking that.