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One click unsubscribe link for email?

by nizmo2112
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Hi fellas,

I send emails and they have unsubscribe links where the unsubscriber needs to manually type in their email. Many unsubscribers create typos, some use the wrong email and others do not enter anything at all. It makes things difficult. It would be great to have a link where the unsubscriber gets a "thank you for unsubscribing you are off our list" page and their email is recorded and stored for collection. Can anyone direct me to someone who can develop this or if you have a file for this can you share?

Thank you!
Hope to hear from you.

-Saul
#click #email #link #unsubscribe
  • Profile picture of the author robomedia
    Hi Saul,

    I understand you send your mails yourself, not by some platform like Mailchimp right ? Because they probably already have such option .

    Where do you keep your email lists ? In a database I suppose ?
    You have one site or more ? anyway the simplest would be you create a link for unsubscribe like this :
    http://mysitewhereiunsubscribe.com/?...john@gmail.com
    but actually you shouldn't do it like this at least encode the email so nobody can just delete it by typing random email . So your link should look like this :
    http://mysitewhereiunsubscribe.com/u...68jhGASj937234
    and the script will decrypt that ( or it can be a very unique identifier in db, not encoding ) and
    remove email from the list.
    It's quite simple if the rest is simple. You can PM me if it's just 5 mins job I can help , if you need something more I can recommend : DBApps - Custom Database Applications for any database related tasks and applications.
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    • Profile picture of the author nizmo2112
      I am fairly new to this so the link description is not making much sense to me given that I do not have a database set up either. Your reply has given me insight into what I need to research like setting up a database and getting emails to eventually land there. I am using a commercial ESP and I just want to have my own unsubscribe link as I use the list in multiple platforms and one unsubscriber must be removed from all of the platforms. I do not want to take your time knowing it will take some time to get this concept in my mind but if you have any references like the custom applications link you posted would be greatly appreciated. Thank You very much for your help!
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