Graham Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] observed: > > This may be stating the obvious, but it has caught me out on a couple > of occasions, you can only unsubscribe using the email address you > originally subscribed with. > > So if you have mail being redirected to, for example, gmail, as I do, > simply clicking on the unsubscribe address at the bottom of a > posting, returns a message that I am not subscribed, because the gmail > address isn't recognised. > > You need to remember which email account you originally subscribed > from, and unsubscribe from there. There may be other solutions, but > that is what I have done in the past.
I had a problem like this two years ago, through no fault of my own. It eventually required intervention from some list owners. My company changed the e-mail address format. The inbound servers continued to accept mail sent to the old-style addresses, but all outgoing e-mail showed itself coming from the new-style addresses. I'm sure y'all immediately see that this made it impossible to unsubscribe or to perform any other modification to settings that required confirmation. The confirmation requests from the list-server would always be received (because they were sent to the original subscribing address, which was still being accepted by our e-mail servers), but the confirmation response from me was always going out as being sent by my new-format address... which was not recognized. Catch-22. There was no question that I remembered the address under which I had subscribed, but I was unable to _be_ that address any longer... even attempts to doctor the message header were helpfully overwritten by the outgoing server. However, this little conundrum does not answer why some listmembers' posts do not include the "unsubscribe" administrivia instructions at the bottom of messages that are handled by the list-server. So far, we are aware of that happening to mail from Gmane users. It probably affects others as well. But what other functions of the list-server are also affected differentially? Is it a setting? A bug? A feature? - Kevin The information contained in this electronic mail transmission may be privileged and confidential, and therefore, protected from disclosure. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to this message and deleting it from your computer without copying or disclosing it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
