The following dialog controls this on the accounts page.
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People either want all the mail they can get or remove themselves aggressively from all the mail they can get, hasn't been a middle ground found yet.
We use a 3rd party for mailing, sometimes if somebody complains the whole account gets put on hold till we can confirm user opt-in/out is being honored, which it should be here. I'll check.