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Explore the case of the unexpected unsubscribe link #353

Open reefdog opened 4 years ago

reefdog commented 4 years ago

I sent myself a Hello World test newsletter, and inserted in the bottom of it was an unsubscribe link to http://email.alerts.factstream.co/u/{token}:

unsubscribe

Our template, however, doesn't contain any Unsubscribe tags (even though we should add one), and best I can tell, there's no setting w/in Mailgun that's governing this. The link is not being inserted into our real newsletters.

This is a low-priority 🤔 task for figuring out why Mailgun's inserting this and under what conditions it might do it to the real newsletters.

reefdog commented 4 years ago

One possibility: I think we ran the recipient address validation on the real mailing lists and not the dev list. We should test whether sending to unvalidated addresses is what causes Mailgun to force an unsubscribe link.