This guy is ranting about a machine and procedures. Yes, he's correct in his rant, but the machine doesn't care. That's the way it was built, and it won't change.

Yes, I get those same messages for the same reason, which I promptly ignore. No bulk mailer ever sees me reading their emails. Yes, they think I'm not getting them, and they're correct, I am not. So when I log on to my account I bypass their request to update my email address. Problem solved.

There's also the issue of so much advertising in actual emails that spam filters sometimes catch it and reject it.

Companies like to verify that you don't have catch-alls or other issues by sending verification email that you don't see. I have a number of verifiers blocked and in order to change my address on a couple of things I have to go in and disable about a half-dozen rejections.

At least with my work email, Outlook doesn't load any images unless you explicitly allow them. Honestly I have no idea how most consumer freemail services tend to handle it, if at all.