On 04/10/2008 17:16, mike scott wrote:
On 4 Oct 2008 at 9:30, Barbara Duprey wrote:
....
It's trivial, but I'm pretty sure ity should work. It does rely on
the forwarding being set up and consistent though. I'll cut'n'paste
what I said earlier:
"1. In your mail client set your email address to the problem gmail
address, and send an unsubscription request to OOo.
1a The list manager will respond to the problem address.
2. Assuming email is being forwarded as you describe, you will
receive the confirmation email.
3. Reply to the confirmation email as directed therein.
4. Restore your proper sending address in your mail client."
(and yes, I know some of this could be short-circuited; in
particular, I vaguely recall confirmation could be completed via a
web link in the copnfirmation email, but may be wrong.)
It /should/ work, no?
Can you do steps 1 through 3 without the password of the problem
account? Haven't tried, but if that works, any of us could do it and get
rid of this guy. In the past, I've been unable to send or receive mail
on an account that was actually mine when the password was changed by
the ISP without telling me.
I've not (yet) tried unsubscribing.
However, subscription seems to work using that technique, so unnsub
presumably does too.
More precisely, I've created an account '[EMAIL PROTECTED]',
forwarded to me, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I sent a subscribe request
pretending to be 'dummy' - confirmation came to 'mike' and was duly
responded to as 'dummy'. Seems to have successfully subscribed
'dummy', as I've just received 2 copies of a test email to the list
(for the need of which I apologise).
All without access to dummy's actual account - just knowing the
forwarding is there.
Now to unsub 'dummy' the same way......... I hope :-)
But isn't what you did only possible because both addresses are
"@scottsonline" and your ISP knows about that name? So you computer will
receive anything addressed to that domain. The password for your mail
account is at the domain level, I think. I use a gmail account for this
list. I don't *think* you could do to me what you did to yourself
without knowing the password on my gmail account. In this case the
password is at the individual address level because all gmail users are
"@" the same domain.
My personal e-mail is @ a "hostname" on Demon (a UK ISP). A"hostname" is
a name you choose when you sign up with Demon. It must be unique within
the Demon world. Suppose you signed with Demon and chose "scottsonline"
as your hostname. You would then have available to you *unlimited*
e-mail addresses of the form
<user_address>@scottsonline.demon.co.uk
You can invent as many <user_address>'s as you like. Demon's SMTP/POP
servers will send/receive from/to any of them. The password on all of
them is the same because the password is for the "scottsonline"
hostname. It's up to you how you separate mail for your different
addresses. Using filters is one way. Using different "identities"
(Outlook Express & Thunderbird at least support this notion) is another.
--
Harold Fuchs
London, England
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