What happens if I unfollow a newsletter feed?

The address stops accepting mail at once, and the feed leaves your sidebar. The address stays reserved for your account, and the emails stay in your account too: creating a newsletter feed with the same address again brings the feed back with the emails it had collected.

The address and the emails

From the moment you unfollow, the mail server refuses every email sent to the address, so the sender gets a bounce. Nothing sent to the address after that is saved. Unfollowing also removes the feed from your folders and deletes the rules and filters attached to that feed. Articles you tagged keep their tags.

The address itself is never deleted and nobody else can take it. The feed and its emails stay in your account, out of sight until you bring the feed back. Unfollowing frees one newsletter feed of your plan's limit.

Unfollowing doesn't unsubscribe you at the sender: the newsletter keeps mailing the address and gets bounces. To stop a newsletter cleanly, unsubscribe on the sender's site first, then unfollow the feed.

Unfollow a newsletter feed

1. Right-click the newsletter feed in the sidebar, or open its menu in the header, and choose Unfollow feed.
2. Confirm.

You can also unfollow it from Preferences > Content.

Bring the feed back

1. Click Add feed in the tab bar and choose Newsletter feed.
2. Enter a name and the same address.
3. Click Create email address.

Inoreader reconnects the original feed rather than creating a new one, so the collected emails are back and the address accepts mail again. The restored feed counts toward your plan's newsletter limit like any other. How do I subscribe to a newsletter with Inoreader? has the full steps for a new feed.

A newsletter feed shared in a team folder belongs to the account that created it, and it receives mail only while that account follows it.

Plans and limits

Newsletter feeds are a Pro feature: Pro includes 20. When a newsletter stops arriving after a plan change rather than after an unfollow, Why is my newsletter not arriving? covers the limit, and What are newsletter feeds? explains the feeds themselves.