UOL confirmed that they do remove email address from spam complaint
reports. If you apply for the Trusted Sender List (
http://postmaster.untd.com/whitelisted.html) they will leave the email
address in place on forwarded messages.



IBM does provide opt-out pages that do not pass the email address in the
URL string, but we have additional functionality that we need to support so
can’t use the built-in opt-out pages. By using the built-in pages, it also
causes clicks on the opt-out links to be counted as clicks in the
reporting.





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Trilogy Interactive
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*From:* Brian Sisolak [mailto:[email protected]]
*Sent:* Monday, April 17, 2017 9:57 PM
*To:* '[email protected]' <[email protected]>
*Subject:* UOL Spam Compliant Format



Anyone from United Online here that can confirm a theory?



UOL sends spam complaints to one of our ESPs (IBM), where someone clicks
the opt-out link in the spam report (contained in the original email body
sent to the end-user) . The opt-out link is not working, which is very
concerning to us and our ESP.



Our theory is that UOL is stripping out a URL parameter (only in spam
reports) that contains the user’s email address. We pass that value to
auto-populate the opt-out form and run client-side validation. As there is
no email parameter in the URL, the validation fails. We have plenty of data
that UOL users are opting out. Our theory is that the email parameter only
seems to be stripped out from the Spam Complaint.



Can UOL confirm this is the case?



We are not using link-tracking on opt-out links (so that clicks are not
reported to our clients as clicks). Links that are using link-tracking
(which also contain the email address) are not getting stripped out. This
makes us think UOL searches the email body for the end-user’s email
addresses and removes it.



This is the link in a live email:

<a href="
https://example.com/unsubscribe?m=28416169&r=NDgwMjI1NzMwMzY2S0&j=MTAwMzkxNTc5NwS2&l=4072595&[email protected]";>Click
here to opt-out</a>



but the &[email protected] gets replaced with an X in
original body that is forwarded to our ESP:

<a href="
https://example.com/unsubscribe?m=28416169&r=NDgwMjI1NzMwMzY2S0&j=MTAwMzkxNTc5NwS2&l=4072595X";>Click
here to opt-out</a>



Thanks,

Brian



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Trilogy Interactive
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