Gobbledegook in [unsubscribe]

[Bronwen]

I'm trying to use a direct "unsubscribe" in my email messages like the one in the "activate" email, because I don't want people on my list to have to remember how they registered.

The problem is that the [unsubscribe] tag makes a very long line of gobbledegook that would require careful copy and paste rather than a simple click as a medium length link would provide, such as

http://www.mysite. com/mlmfolder/lm/[email protected]=&local=yes



Is there a fix for this? Any help would be appreciated.

Besides using [unsubscribe tag, I tried putting the email tag in an unsubscribe link I copied from the activation email when testing the subscribe/unsubscribe process. I got even more gobbledegook.

Sample below (spaces added to keep the example from truncating):

http://www.mysite.com/mlm folder/lm/lm.php?un=SmVmZglDbG Fya2UJSmVmfortunsmZiBDbGFy a2UgUGhsmilevdG9nlocmFwaHkJcmViYnlAbWFjLmNvbQl0ZXN0IHVuc3VtCTkwCXRlc3RsaXN0MQk4NTgzL TIJMQl1bnN1YnNjcmliZ Qlubwl5ZXM=&local=yes

If that isn't possible, is there any way to remove the "first name" and "last name" requirement from the unsubscribe process? I'm not worried about some meanie blowing my list by sneaking in and unsubscribing my readers one by one.

 

[stanbusk]

Have you tried to use the Styled Text format? With that format you can use a word instead of the full link.

 

[Bronwen]

Great tip, but I'm using text/html. In the plain text portion, it's gobbledegook in the preview and in the test email.

Is there a way to hard code the entry to fill in the info on the unsubscribe page, without using the "unsubscribe" tag, as in something like the example below?

http://www.mysite. com/mlmfolder/lm/lm.php?un=[E-mail Address]=&local=yes&firstname=[Firstname]&lastname=[Surname]

 

[stanbusk]

The only solution is to eliminate the unsubscribe link in the text part and replace it with something else. When using MLM you will always get long URLs. Hopefully almost nobody will see that text part since nowadays almost all email software is able to render HTML.

 

[Bronwen]

That's a good point about few using the text part of text/html. I'll include a note about copying and pasting the long link and stop worrying about it.

Thank you, stanbusk.

Bronwen