# 27-Apr-2026 — Unsubscribes and blocked contacts [#18](https://github.com/nbarrett/ngx-ramblers/issues/18)
## [run 624](https://github.com/nbarrett/ngx-ramblers/actions/runs/24969398442) — [commit 78478d7](https://github.com/nbarrett/ngx-ramblers/commit/78478d767f84746f2a075221d7a37dec78b7ab29)
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## What's new
- **Mail Settings → Unsubscribes** lists everyone Brevo is not sending to: people who unsubscribed, admin blocks, hard bounces and spam flags.
- That state is copied onto the matching member record, so Member Admin, re-imports and auto-subscribe all honour the latest opt-out.
- The unsubscribe link in outgoing mail opens the group's own branded page, not Brevo's form. Recipients can optionally say why.
## Two views
Open [Mail Settings → Unsubscribes](https://ngx-ramblers.org.uk/admin/mail-settings?tab=unsubscribes "{{siteUrl}}").
The toggle at the top right switches between:
- **Unsubscribes**: someone left a specific mailing list, with the list name and any reason they gave.
- **Blocks**: account-wide hard bounces, spam flags, admin blocks, and contacts who used the old global unsubscribe page.
*Unsubscribes tab: member-level events, with reason badges and the originating list*
*Blocks tab: hard bounces, spam flags and admin blocks*
Each row shows the contact email (click to open in Brevo), sender, reason, matched member, lists, and date.
Search, reason, sender and the date-range slider filter the list. Clear filters resets them. The current filters sit in the URL, so you can share a view.
On a Blocks row, the bin icon removes that contact from Brevo's blocks after a confirm. It does not re-subscribe them: use the member's Brevo tab if they should receive mail again. Options → Clear all blocks is for staging and recovery. It does not delete members.
Opening the page, and the two-hourly sync, write the same state onto the member: a warning on their Brevo tab, an audit row, and local subscriptions flipped to unsubscribed for the lists involved. Member Admin has a Blocked from receiving email filter.
## What recipients see
Clicking unsubscribe in an email takes them to the group's own `/unsubscribe` page. The unsubscribe completes on load, for that list only. The reason form is optional. Gmail and Apple Mail one-click unsubscribe hits the same endpoint.
Hard bounces, spam and complaints still block the whole address.
## Keeping it in step
- A job runs every two hours.
- A Brevo webhook updates us as events happen.
- If someone is no longer blocked in Brevo, the next full sync clears the local flag.
- Re-importing the Head office CSV still updates the member, but will not auto-subscribe anyone who is blocked locally, even if the consent column says yes.
- A fresh bulk import now creates the Brevo contact and puts them on the configured lists in one step.
## Also in this release
- Admin tables use the lighter layout and collapse to cards on a phone.
- Upload History filters sit on one line.
- Member Raw Data JSON is hidden behind an eye toggle.
- After a deploy, the site no longer serves a stale page that fails to load until a hard refresh.
## Keeping it in step
- A job runs every two hours.
- A Brevo webhook updates us as events happen.
- If someone is no longer blocked in Brevo, the next full sync clears the local flag.
- Re-importing the Head office CSV still updates the member, but will not auto-subscribe anyone who is blocked locally, even if the consent column says yes.
- A fresh bulk import now creates the Brevo contact and puts them on the configured lists in one step.
## Also in this release
- Admin tables use the lighter layout and collapse to cards on a phone.
- Upload History filters sit on one line.
- Member Raw Data JSON is hidden behind an eye toggle.
- After a deploy, the site no longer serves a stale page that fails to load until a hard refresh.
## Keeping it in step
- A job runs every two hours.
- A Brevo webhook updates us as events happen.
- If someone is no longer blocked in Brevo, the next full sync clears the local flag.
- Re-importing the Head office CSV still updates the member, but will not auto-subscribe anyone who is blocked locally, even if the consent column says yes.
- A fresh bulk import now creates the Brevo contact and puts them on the configured lists in one step.
## Also in this release
- Admin tables use the lighter layout and collapse to cards on a phone.
- Upload History filters sit on one line.
- Member Raw Data JSON is hidden behind an eye toggle.
- After a deploy, the site no longer serves a stale page that fails to load until a hard refresh.
## Keeping it in step
- A job runs every two hours.
- A Brevo webhook updates us as events happen.
- If someone is no longer blocked in Brevo, the next full sync clears the local flag.
- Re-importing the Head office CSV still updates the member, but will not auto-subscribe anyone who is blocked locally, even if the consent column says yes.
- A fresh bulk import now creates the Brevo contact and puts them on the configured lists in one step.
## Also in this release
- Admin tables use the lighter layout and collapse to cards on a phone.
- Upload History filters sit on one line.
- Member Raw Data JSON is hidden behind an eye toggle.
- After a deploy, the site no longer serves a stale page that fails to load until a hard refresh.