That's one of the situations which can cause problems. Mailing lists
often provide a way to specify an address to unsubscribe other than the
one you are sending from. The confirmation email would still go to the
subscribed address (so no-one else can unsubscribe you without your
knowledge), but that message should be forwarded to you actual address
the same as any other emails you receive through the list.
Along with the unsubscribe info at the bottom of most messages is:
> For additional commands send email to [email protected]
> with Subject: help
Doing that gives you a list of commands, one of which is:
> All commands must be sent to the electronic address
> [email protected]
>
> You can put multiple commands in a message. These commands must
> appear in the message body and each line must contain only one
> command.
...
> UNSubscribe <list> <EMAIL> * To quit <list>. <EMAIL> is an
> optional email address, useful if different from your "From:"
> address.
So it looks like sending an email to [email protected] with:
unsubscribe users <Your subscribed address>
in the body of the message should work. You can use "*" in place of
"users" to unsubscribe from all openoffice.org mailing lists, in case
you are subscribed to others as well.
Hope that works for you.
Mark.
Wayne Tack wrote:
Does it help to tell my little story? When I subscribed to this list,
I did so with an aliased address. The underlying actual address, a work
address, has since changed, and I can't send an unsubscribe message as
that "persona". As far as I can tell, unless I disable that alias, which
I really don't want to do, I'm stuck with this list until the end of
time. Perhaps this is some other people's experience? Not a crisis for
me, as I'm already swamped with mail (although it would be nice to be
_able_ to unsubscribe.
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*From:* Amy Lowenstein [mailto:[email protected]]
*Sent:* Thursday, October 27, 2011 7:50 AM
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* [users] Fwd: Re: Unsubscribing
Supposedly, the first time I tried to send this e-mail this morning, it
got rejected as comcast, or Thunderbird, or something, being "s p a m."
I guess I'd better fix it so the word "j u n k" and/or the word "s p a
m" isn't in the message, or maybe it'll get rejected again. -- Amy
Lowenstein
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Unsubscribing
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 08:41:34 -0400
From: Amy Lowenstein <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
By the way, I was in contact privately with one person who wanted to
unsubscribe, and I let him know about the proper e-dress for the initial
unsubscription request and the re-confirmation that must be done. He
wrote back to me to let me know he had gone thru all those steps, even
got a confirmation number about unsubscribing, but STILL kept getting
the group e-mails anyway! So who knows?
Some people may find it easier just to let their e-mail filter know that
"[email protected]" is "j u n k" and should land in their "j u n k" or
"s p a m" folder!
Amy Lowenstein, Yardley PA
On 10/27/11 8:13 AM, James Knott wrote:
[email protected] wrote:
If you read the thread, you would see that we've been discussing why
the message about unsubscribing is NOT displayed at the bottom of
every email. It appears not to be added to HTML-only emails, nor to
the HTML part of multipart/alternative messages.
Some mail lists block HTML messages. It might be an idea here to
avoid this problem.
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