If the sender is a legitimate business, and you don't want their emails, the answer is YES. It may take up to a month, but legitimate business will take you off their lists.
If the sender is a spammer, the answer is NO. Hitting "unsubscribe" just lets them know there is a real live person on the other end of your email address.
So really the question to ask first is, How do you tell if the unwanted email is legit or spam? Two options:
- Fast & Easy fix - forget trying to find out whether the email is legit and just set up a rule to send all future emails from this source to your Junk Mail or Delete folders.
OR, if you have Outlook:
- Highlight the email in your inbox without opening it, then right-click and choose "Message Options". At the bottom of the box that pops up is a section called "Internet headers". There is a lot of coding in there, but it tells you exactly the routes the email took to get to you, and who it really came from - the business it says it is, or someone else.
- Another option is to move the email to your Junk Mail, then open it. Junk Mail lets you read your email in "safe mode", showing you only text. Look for links. Junk Mail lets you see where the links go. If the unsubscribe link goes to a real business, it's okay. If it goes somewhere weird, it may be a spammer. It's hard to tell sometimes if the business is using a service, but better safe than sorry. Don't unsubscribe without more research.
- When in doubt, write a rule in Outlook to send all incoming emails from that sender to you Junk Mail or Delete folder.
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