Email Unsubscribe Check

How to Scan

1. Search recent emails: newer_than:7d (or wider if user requests)
2. Identify senders that look promotional/automated/digest
3. Present findings grouped by confidence:
   • Clearly unsubscribeable: marketing, promos, digests user never engages with
   • Ask user: newsletters, community content, event platforms (might be wanted)

Unsubscribe Execution

For each confirmed sender, do ALL of these:

1. Actually unsubscribe via browser (most important step)

Two approaches depending on the sender:

For emails with unsubscribe links:

• Read the email via gws gmail to find the unsubscribe URL (usually at bottom of email body)
• Navigate to the URL with Chrome DevTools MCP
• Take a snapshot, find the confirmation button/checkbox
• Click through to complete the unsubscribe
• Verify the confirmation page

For services with email settings pages (Nextdoor, LinkedIn, etc.):

• Navigate to the service's notification/email settings page
• Log in using credentials from pass if needed
• Find and disable all email notification toggles
• Check ALL categories (digests, alerts, promotions, etc.)

2. Create Gmail filter as backup

Even after unsubscribing, create a filter to catch stragglers:

gws gmail users settings filters create \
  --params '{"userId":"me"}' \
  --json '{"criteria":{"from":"domain.com"},"action":{"removeLabelIds":["INBOX"]}}'

3. Mark old emails as read and archive them (minimum hygiene)

After unsubscribing, clean up existing email from the sender.

• At minimum: mark them as read.
• Preferred/default: also archive them (remove INBOX label).

Example:

gws gmail users messages list --params '{"userId":"me","q":"from:domain.com","maxResults":50}'
gws gmail users messages batchModify \
  --params '{"userId":"me"}' \
  --json '{"ids":["..."],"removeLabelIds":["UNREAD","INBOX"]}'

Signals That an Email is Unsubscribeable

• "no-reply@" or "newsletter@" sender addresses
• Marketing subject lines: sales, promotions, "don't miss", digests
• Bulk senders: Nextdoor, Yelp, LinkedIn digest, social media notifications
• Community digests the user doesn't engage with
• Financial marketing (not transactional alerts)
• "Your weekly/daily/monthly" summaries

Signals to NOT Auto-Unsubscribe (Ask First)

• Patreon/creator content
• Event platforms (Luma, Eventbrite, Meetup)
• Professional communities
• Services the user actively uses (even if noisy)
• Transactional emails from wanted services