I got fed-up of being unsubscribed like this from my yahoo mail account, which had worked fine for years and decided to try a different (free) mail provider. Yet to see whether it's a real improvement, but getting messages at all is a plus. (emails I sent from the yahoo account to the list asking "why unsubscribed?" went into a black hole of "awaiting moderation", never to re-appear, be answered or be rejected.) Mabel
> Sent: Friday, October 16, 2020 at 4:21 PM > From: "David Woodhouse" <dw...@infradead.org> > To: "Kevin McCarthy" <special...@blueyonder.co.uk>, > get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org > Subject: Re: Unsubscribed > > On Fri, 2020-10-16 at 15:32 +0100, Kevin McCarthy wrote: > > Anyone else been unsubscribed from this mailing list? > > I just got a "You have been unsubscribed" email from > > > > get_iplayer-boun...@lists.infradead.org > > > > even though I didn't post any messages. > > I'm with VirginMedia and I haven't personally changed anything. > > > > Had a confirmation from the mailing list after resubscribing so I guess it's > > ok now. > > > Probably a combination of mailer misconfigurations. > > What often happens is that someone's mail admin buys in to one of these > still spam-avoidance snake oil schemes, and publishes a record > promising to the world that, e.g. "mail From:x...@example.com will never > come from anywhere except my own mail server, directly". That's > misconfiguration #1. > > Someone @example.com then sends a message to a mailing list, which does > the correct thing of sending it on with the From: header intact, since > that indicates the author of the message — and with a Sender: header > indicating that it was actually the list software that sent this copy > of the message. > > A second mail misconfiguration is needed at the final recipient's end, > where they look at the message, look at the misguided promise from the > original sender's email domain, and decide to reject the message as > "spam". > > If a recipient bounces too many list messages, they get removed from > the list as a non-functioning address. I suspect that's what just > happened to you. > _______________________________________________ > get_iplayer mailing list > get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer > _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer