The problem with my mailer (MS Outlook) is that I don't see a return-path
line.
One odd thing is that unsubscribe doesn't seem to work EVEN if one has sent
the unsubscribe request via his/her subscribing address. I know for sure it
has failed on me. I am positive about my subscribing address being correct
as I saved the instructions of subscribing/unsubscribing sent by the mailing
list when I initially signed up. And I have tried to unsubscribe at least
twice and both times I failed.
The only solution I could come up with is having all messages from "tomcat
user", "tomcat user list" etc... filtered into the delete folder... :-)
Apparently my setup didn't undergo enough permutations of "tomcat" and
"user" such that the attached message wasn't filtered out... :-)
Any ideas ?
-----Original Message-----
From: Milt Epstein [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 2:18 PM
To: Tomcat User Mailing List
Subject: ***** URGENT: UNSUBSCRIBING FROM THE TOMCAT-USER
LIST *****
Obviously a lot of people are having trouble unsubscribing from this
list. Most likely these people have tried the simple/direct way of
unsubscribing -- sending email to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
-- without success. That's because that way only works if you send
the unsubscribe request from the address you are subscribed from.
But
many people receive/send their email from a different address than
the
one they originally subscribed from.
Some people (including me and others) have posted instructions on
how
to unsubscribe when faced with this situation. But it's not clear
that the right people are seeing these messages (I guess you can't
blame them too much, because they're probably not reading the
messages
too closely, because the whole point is they want to get off this
list). But I'm going to make another attempt to post these
instructions in the hope that it will help someone. I'll try to
make
the subject line such that even those people that are deleting
everything from the list will stop and notice it (for the people
that
want to stay on the list, sorry about that :-).
First of all, you need to find out what address tomcat-user thinks
you're subscribed from. To do that, look at the headers of a
message
from the list, and you'll see something like:
Return-Path:
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The Return-Path header line includes the address tomcat-user thinks
you're subscribed from -- with the "@" changed to a "=" to avoid
having two "@"'s in the Return-Path. In this example, that's
joe=domain.com, which translates to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Once you know that address, you can unsubscribe by sending email to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Voila!
So, if you are having trouble unsubscribing, please give this a try.
Milt Epstein
Research Programmer
Software/Systems Development Group
Computing and Communications Services Office (CCSO)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
