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by Leftium 299 days ago
I would say the "unsubscribe" rule still catches about 80-90% of the SPAM for me. (I thought the US had a law that any promotional email must include a link with "unsubscribe")

Then my "uninteresting sender" rules catch most of the remaining SPAM/uninteresting emails. These are accounts like "noreply" that automated emails often come from.

I had to set up a very special rule for a single company because they successfully dodged my other filters but always started with "Because you're a valued Vanguard client, we thought you'd be interested in this information."

More details: https://blog.leftium.com/2023/11/automatic-inbox-cleanup-wit...

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> I thought the US had a law that any promotional email must include a link with "unsubscribe"

I think they need a way to unsubscribe, but doesn't have to be a link. So the circumlocution suffices, or so it seems.