If your Google email account is cluttered with countless and unwanted email subscriptions, a new free online service called unroll.me may just well do the trick. Unroll.me works by batch unrolling your subscriptions in a matter of minutes.
As for now, Unroll.me only works with subscriptions delivered to Gmail accounts. Yahoo and other mail services will be coming on board soon. To get started with Unroll.me, you simply need to provide your email and password, and Unroll.me will automatically locate your email subscriptions. After processing your subscriptions, Unroll.me provides a list of them.
If you feel a little unsure about un-subscribing to some of the emails, Unroll.me has got you covered. You can check which emails you want to keep and which you want to discontinue. If you have several subscriptions, Unroll.me can be easier than unsubscribing them one at a time. Plus, unroll.me can go through and locate those subscriptions that you may overlook in your crowded inbox.
The subscriptions you want to keep get categorized into a special Rollup box, where you can view them in your account. You can also star and manage particular subscription emails, and designate which part of the day you would like Unroll.me to serve up your emails.
You can also preview and navigate through your Rollup in your account, so you don’t have to open your Gmail to view them. In addition, all your unsubscribed emails are listed in the Unsubscribed folder, but it doesn’t look as if you can re-enroll them once unsubscribed.
Source: GottaBeMobile
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This is really very intresting feature but the main concern is how can we provide our username and password…??
just the thing i’m looking for, my email is to cluttered with newsletters.
“to get started with Unroll.me, you simply need to provide your email and password, and Unroll.me will automatically locate your email subscriptions”
do my password and email username will be safe?
That’s my main concern too , I don’t feel very comfortable providing my password to a third party.
Hi, I work with Unroll.me.
In reply to the privacy concerns, please visit unroll.me/privacy for full details on our Privacy Policy. We are one of MANY companies that uses Gmail Oauth to access your account – this is nothing new. The whole reason we do this is that we NEVER HAVE ACCESS to your password.
The revenue model which we are testing has to do with content discovery and nothing to do with selling your email addresses. We didn’t create a service to save people from email marketers in order to perpetuate the problem.
In addition to Gmail, Yahoo! Mail will be available on our site in the near future. Follow us on Twitter (@unrollme) or Like us on Facebook for updates.
We hope this clears up many of your concerns. If you still have questions or comments, contact us by emailing beta@unroll.me.
Wow!! That means this is safe!!! Nice!!! I am eagerly waiting for Yahoo Mail support!!
Jack, thanks for coming on and providing that additional information.
great!!!!!! i needed something like this, because so many times i couldn’t unsupscribe…
Yeah, it’s pain sometimes to go back and unsubscribe to say 20 email subscriptions one at a time.
well hopefull just as the other said it won’t store password and thing…
even though changing wouldn’t be an issue
Hi, I work with Unroll.me.
In reply to the privacy concerns, please visit unroll.me/privacy for full details on our Privacy Policy. We are one of MANY companies that uses Gmail Oauth to access your account – this is nothing new. The whole reason we do this is that we NEVER HAVE ACCESS to your password.
The revenue model which we are testing has to do with content discovery and nothing to do with selling your email addresses. We didn’t create a service to save people from email marketers in order to perpetuate the problem.
In addition to Gmail, Yahoo! Mail will be available on our site in the near future. Follow us on Twitter (@unrollme) or Like us on Facebook for updates.
We hope this clears up many of your concerns. If you still have questions or comments, contact us by emailing beta@unroll.me.
The problem is in spam messages not in messages unsubscribe option. Seems like someone skipped on market research, isnt it?
No, sometimes I sign up for a subscription, but after a while I simply just am no longer interested in getting the emails. That’s the reason I use one of my Gmail accounts for subscribing to sites I’m only temporarily interested in.
John, I should clarify, that the site is not asking for your password. You go through the Gmail Oauth process so they can get access.
It seems to use OAuth, so the author made a mistake. I was really suspicious that a brand new service would require entering password, do went there to check. When I selected Gmail from dropdown, I got the familiar google OAuth page for confirmation. I wish this was there a few days back when I went through some 50 services to unsubscribe manually. I need to do the same again for yahoo mail, but they don’t yet support.
Hari, you’re right, I should have made the clarification about authorization. Thanks.
the username and password always the main concern
good feature though
Stay the hell away from this service: it identified 900+ “subscriptions” in my gmail, which was basically every person who’s ever sent me email. Obviously, I wasnt going to curate 900+ addresses , so i just figured it would actually work out which were real subscriptions. Instead, it intercepted every email in the account, sending me a daily round-up instead. Immediately disabled my account, the service is useless. If it requires that much individual control to do anything useful, then I could just as easily deal with it myself using rules, folders, and this little trick I like to “UNSUBSCRIBE” link in unwanted newsletters.
Hmmm, I didn’t have your problem it all. It only identified about 18 subscriptions for me, and done of them were personal emails. You should write to them about the problem you encountered.
Wow how do you unroll from unroll.me! Thought it would do what its motto claims to do but so not the case. Still getting all the junk mail to the inbox and now you can add unroll.me emails to the list.
Sammy, try writing to Jack above and see what he says about unsubscribing to the service. I need to check back on my unrolled subcriptions to see if any are still not arriving.