Choose which emails we send you
Two switches, two locks.
Account → Notifications lists the four kinds of email OpenEmail sends you. Activity and Product news switch off. Account and Billing stay on, with a lock that says so.
In short
What are email notification preferences?
Most services email you for several reasons: security, receipts, reminders and news. Preferences let you stop the kinds you do not want while the mail that keeps your account working carries on. A good settings page says plainly which is which.
2
switches: Activity and Product news
2
locked on: Account and Billing
7
days without opening OpenEmail before an Activity note
How it works
Left out before anything is built
Switch Activity off and the query that picks who gets it leaves you out. No message is built for you and then thrown away.
Off stays off until you say
Your choice is kept as a list of the categories you turned off, and only you switching one back on removes an entry.
Unsubscribe opens the switches
Switchable emails carry a footer link and a List-Unsubscribe header, both pointing at Account → Notifications, so your mail app's unsubscribe button opens your switches rather than stopping everything.
What you get
In the product today
Locked on the server
A request to switch off Account or Billing is refused by the server itself.
One switch each
Activity and Product news turn off independently.
No link, no send
A switchable email missing its preferences link is refused before it leaves.
Activity waits a week
One note per absence, after seven days without opening OpenEmail.
Good practice
Getting the most out of it
- 01
An address you read
Password resets go to your account address whatever you switch off, so keep it one you check.
- 02
Unsubscribe from the email
The footer link in a switchable email opens the same switches.
- 03
Away often? Keep Activity
After a week away it sends one note saying your mail kept arriving.
Questions
Asked often
Keep going
Works well with
Start
Your domain,
your mail.
Point a domain at OpenEmail and read it in a mailbox built around it. The free plan covers one domain.
