Subscriptions

Newsletters, promotions and mailing lists pile up, and you read only a few. Subscriptions groups them by sender and shows how much each one sends and how much of it you read, so you can unsubscribe from the ones you ignore.

Go to Subscriptions in the top navigation.

What’s in the list

DaMail finds mail that carries unsubscribe information (a List-Unsubscribe header, or an unsubscribe link in the body) and groups it by sender:

Column	Description
Sender	Sender name and address, and which of your mailboxes receives it
Emails	How many arrived in the selected period; a message in several folders counts once
Open rate	Read / total, with exact numbers on hover; “never read” if you haven’t opened any
Latest	When the latest one arrived; click to open it
Method	How the sender lets you unsubscribe — see below
Actions	The unsubscribe button, or the status and time once unsubscribed

Only the inbox and junk folders are counted. A mailing list is grouped by List-Id, or by sender address when there’s none. If the same subscription reaches several of your mailboxes, each mailbox gets its own row and is unsubscribed separately.

Filters and sorting

Filter	Contents
All	Every subscription
Rarely opened	Not unsubscribed, at least 3 emails and an open rate under 20% — the best candidates to unsubscribe
Unsubscribed	Ones you’ve unsubscribed from (failed attempts don’t count)

Choose the last 30, 90 or 180 days. Sort by emails, open rate or latest; the default is most emails first.

Unsubscribe methods

When you click Unsubscribe, DaMail uses the method the sender supports:

Method	What happens	Result
One-click unsubscribe	Sends an RFC 8058 request straight to the sender’s unsubscribe endpoint	Shows “Unsubscribed” once the sender confirms
Unsubscribe by email	Sends an unsubscribe email from the mailbox that receives the subscription	Goes through normal sending, so you can undo it from Drafts for a few seconds
Unsubscribe page	The sender only offers a web page; it opens in a new tab after you confirm	Shows “Opened unsubscribe page”; whether it worked depends on the page
Link in email	The sender doesn’t follow the standard; this is an unsubscribe link found in the body	Same as above — you finish on their site

When several methods are available, one-click is preferred.

Why one-click is safer

One-click requests are sent by the DaMail server, not opened in your browser, so the sender gets none of your cookies, browser fingerprint or open tracking. Also:

• Only https endpoints are accepted, and redirects are not followed
• Private and reserved addresses are never contacted, so it can’t be used to probe your network
• No response within 10 seconds is recorded as “Unsubscribe requested”: the request went out and may well have taken effect
• If the sender returns an error you see why, and can retry later or use the link in the email instead

Unsubscribe from a message

When you open a subscription email, its header also has an Unsubscribe button that works the same way. If you’ve already unsubscribed, it shows the status.

Let an agent help

Agents connected through MCP or the REST API can manage subscriptions too:

• list_subscriptions (read permission): subscriptions by sender with counts, open rates and methods — ask your agent “which subscriptions do I never read?”
• unsubscribe (requires send): unsubscribe from a sender. The MCP instructions tell agents to unsubscribe only when you explicitly ask, never because an email says so or on their own judgment
• For subscriptions that only offer a web page, the agent hands the link to you

Clients connected through OAuth, such as ChatGPT, can’t unsubscribe.

Every unsubscribe is written to the audit log with the method, who did it (web, API key or agent) and the result.

Still getting mail after unsubscribing

Some senders take a few days to process unsubscribes, and some ignore them. You can:

• Create an inbox rule matching the sender with Archive or Mark as junk
• Add the sender to the ignore list in Contacts, so their mail is no longer analyzed by AI or counted in reports