How to Disable Microsoft Email Reactions by Adding a Postfix Header
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Summary
The article discusses the author's frustration with Microsoft's email reaction feature, where recipients using Microsoft email services can send reactions (like thumbs-up or heart) to emails, which then generate separate notification emails to the sender. The author, who is not in the Microsoft ecosystem, finds these reaction notifications unwanted and describes a technical solution: adding a specific header to outgoing emails to disable this feature. The content focuses on the annoyance of this automated feature and provides a technical workaround for those who want to opt out.
Key quotes
· 4 pulledI imagine that, to the sender, or to someone in the Microsoft ecosystem, they are handled a bit liked a 'thumbs-up' or 'heart' reaction to a Signal message.
To me - as someone not in the Microsoft ecosystem - for each reaction, I get an email: like [person] reacted to your message:
The 'like' is alt-text. Because I don't allow loading of remote content, I don't see an image here. I don't want this.
Microsoft has a specific header which one can add to outgoing to email:
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