alt Hacker NewsAt least with your suggestions there's some chance that their newsletter won't instantly get flagged as spam.
I'd do what you suggest, but send the newsletter from an separate domain once subscriptions have been confirmed.
At least with your suggestions there's some chance that their newsletter won't instantly get flagged as spam.
I'd do what you suggest, but send the newsletter from an separate domain once subscriptions have been confirmed.
That one-time announcement is called an email. And therefore that first announcement itself can be flagged as spam.
And naturally, unless they click a link in the first email, gmail should consider anything subsequent to be spam anyway. They have no idea whether consent happened somewhere else or not.
The unsubscribe links must work without even opening the email, according to gmail rules.