San Francisco — Ever sign up for a genuine mailing list, but then regret it later and marked it as spam anyway because you are no more interested in it? Now users of Gmail service can rid themselves from unsolicited and unwanted marketing emails with ease. Search giant Google has added an “auto-unsubscribe” feature to Gmail that will unsubscribe you from mailing lists that you may have signed up for but then decide you do not want after all.
We do not think you should be burdened with managing messages you no longer wish to receive. We do our best to put messages in Spam when we are pretty sure you would not want or need them. But everyone has different preferences about the mail they want to see. You may not want to read any messages sent by a certain company or mailing list, while another Gmail user finds these same messages to be valuable.
In order to help solve this problem, we are providing you with an unsubscribe tool for some messages. You will see the unsubscribe tool when you mark a message from particular types of mailing lists as spam. If the particular message is a misuse of a mailing list you like to receive, you can Report spam as usual. But if you never want to receive another message or newsletter from that list again, click Unsubscribe instead. We will send a request to the sender that your email address be removed from the list. It’s that simple!
However, not all messages marked as spam will be supported with an unsubscribe options. Users are also warned that unsubscribes may take several days.
Five-year-old Gmail is now the third most-populated web mail provider, serving 146 million users, behind Hotmail (343 million users) and Yahoo Mail (285 million).