Hi, On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 11:37:15AM +0000, Chris G wrote: > I subscribe to mailing lists as [email protected] rather than my real local > E-Mail, mail for that address is auto-forwarded from the server where > it arrives to my local mailbox. This allows me to easily transfer all > my mailing list mail to another delivery address if I need to. > > However I have a problem with one mailing list I'm trying to > unsubscribe from, it's one where you send a messages to an unsubscribe > address and then a confirmation. The trouble is that it insists on > using my Return-Path: rather than either the From: or Reply-To: > address so I can't get it to unsibscribe [email protected]. > > Is there any way that I can get mutt to set Return-Path: so that the > mailing list software talks sense to me? Or is Return-Path: set by > the SMTP server somewhere? I.e. if I *do* set Return-Path: with mutt > by editing the outgoing mail will it survive? > > (N.B. this is the *only* mailing list where I have ever had this > problem, in addition it doesn't have a web interface so I can't do it > that way either)
I had a similar issue with the Apache Axis mailing lists. It worked as soon as I set the envelope sender [1] to match the From: address. Of course, this may be affected by the way you hand over your emails to your MTA. I use mutt's built-in smtp submission client. Cheers, Christoph [1] http://www.mutt.org/doc/devel/manual.html#envelope-from-address
