I hear ya,
I consider myself a fairly accomplished mail and unix sys admin, and
can't get off the fetchmail list. Luckily I subscribed to that list with
an address that was dispensible. My solution was to never retrieve that
account again.
Have you tried all the functionality afforded to you by the list, like
ask for a list of subscribers? I think ezmlm can do that, I know
majordomo can. See if you're on the list that is produced by that
command/message. If so, separate out the text from that message which
shows your address, and post it to the list along with the commands/msgs
you're sending to remove yourself. If not, you best switch to qmail,
because you'll be on the list for life.
Saludos Eric Dahnke
Chris Santerre escribió:
>
> I hate when people keep posting stupid stuff on a list. I am on numerous lists
> like everyone else. When you get these newbies that ask the stupidest things you
> have to grin and bear it. But when they keep beating a dead horse, you want to
> beat the term FAQ and HOWTO into there vocabulary. Well now I feel like I need
> the beating. All I want to do is get off this list. I got on when I was thinking
> of using qmail on one of our servers, but I didn't use it. So I get tons of
> things I don't need. I have tried just about everything. If somebody can't
> figure out this problem, I'll have to write a script that filters this stuff
> out. the following is an email I sent to another person that best describes the
> problem. Basically the return-path address in the header is the same as what I
> try to unsubscribe as, but it just says not in the list. PLEASE help me figure
> this out so I can stop wasting everyone's time.
>
> Here goes:
>
> If you can figure this one out for me, I am in your debt. I hate pasting in all
> this stuff, but I don't have a choice at this point. I have done the usual
> unsubscribe with no effect. Yes it tells me I am not in the list. So I searched
> the
> return path as you and about ten others have mentioned, including the ezmlm
> itself. It gives me the same name that I tried unsubscribing with. As with
> every
> other admin in the world, I have a lot of email addresses. I have tried them
> all.
> Here is a list of the email addresses I have tried to unsubscribe as:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (An old email I inherited from previous admin's web design)
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (this is an internal email id set by emwac)
> and the 1st 3 again with @mole.paginc.com
>
> It never gives me an error about my unsubscription, so I no they are not
> malformed.
> This branch of the company is using EMWAC email on an NT server w/ Norton
> antivirus
> email gateway. I don't think any of this matters but I figured I'd give you the
> whole scoop. So here's what it gives me:
>
> Received:
> from SMTP (unverified [208.165.176.194]) by mole.paginc.com
> (EMWAC
>
> SMTPRS 0.83) with SMTP id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Tue,
> 07
> Dec
> 1999 09:11:58 -0500
> Received:
> from muncher.math.uic.edu ([131.193.178.181]) by
> 208.165.176.194
> (Norton
> AntiVirus for Internet Email Gateways 1.0) ; Tue, 07 Dec 1999
> 14:11:57 0000
> (GMT)
> Received:
> (qmail 6030 invoked by uid 1002); 7 Dec 1999 14:06:32 -0000
> Mailing-List:
> contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]; run by ezmlm
> Date:
> 7 Dec 1999 14:06:32 -0000
> Message-ID:
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> From:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Reply-To:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject:
> ezmlm response
> Delivered-To:
> responder for [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Received:
> (qmail 5512 invoked from network); 7 Dec 1999 14:06:32 -0000
> Received:
> from mole.paginc.com (208.165.176.194) by muncher.math.uic.edu
> with SMTP;
> 7 Dec 1999 14:06:32 -0000
> Received:
> from SMTP (unverified [172.16.1.101]) by mole.paginc.com (EMWAC
>
> SMTPRS 0.83) with SMTP id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Tue,
> 07
> Dec
> 1999 09:10:13 -0500
> Received:
> from paginc.com ([172.16.1.188]) by 172.16.1.101 (Norton
> AntiVirus
> for
> Internet Email Gateways 1.0) ; Tue, 07 Dec 1999 14:10:12 0000
> (GMT)
> X-Mozilla-Status:
> 8003
> X-Mozilla-Status2:
> 00000000
> X-UIDL:
> B0000494508.MSG
>
> Hi! This is the ezmlm program. I'm managing the
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list.
>
> To confirm that you would like
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> removed from this mailing list, please send an empty reply to this address:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Your mailer should have a Reply feature that uses this address automatically.
>
> I haven't checked whether your address is currently on the mailing list.
> To see what address you used to subscribe, look at the messages you are
> receiving from the mailing list. Each message has your address hidden
> inside its return path; for example, [EMAIL PROTECTED] receives messages
> with return path ...-God=heaven.af.mil.
>
> See http://pobox.com/~djb/qmail.html for more information about qmail.
>
> Please read http://pobox.com/~djb/qmail/faq.html before sending your
> question to the qmail mailing list.
>
> --- Here are the ezmlm command addresses.
>
> I can handle administrative requests automatically.
> Just send an empty note to any of these addresses:
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Receive future messages sent to the mailing list.
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Stop receiving messages.
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Retrieve a copy of message 12345 from the archive.
>
> DO NOT SEND ADMINISTRATIVE REQUESTS TO THE MAILING LIST!
> If you do, I won't see them, and subscribers will yell at you.
>
> To specify [EMAIL PROTECTED] as your subscription address, send mail
> to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
> I'll send a confirmation message to that address; when you receive that
> message, simply reply to it to complete your subscription.
>
> --- Below this line is a copy of the request I received.
>
> Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Received: (qmail 5512 invoked from network); 7 Dec 1999 14:06:32 -0000
> Received: from mole.paginc.com (208.165.176.194)
> by muncher.math.uic.edu with SMTP; 7 Dec 1999 14:06:32 -0000
> Received: from SMTP (unverified [172.16.1.101]) by mole.paginc.com
> (EMWAC SMTPRS 0.83) with SMTP id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
> Tue, 07 Dec 1999 09:10:13 -0500
> Received: from paginc.com ([172.16.1.188]) by 172.16.1.101
> (Norton AntiVirus for Internet Email Gateways 1.0) ;
> Tue, 07 Dec 1999 14:10:12 0000 (GMT)
> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1999 08:57:43 -0500
> From: Chris Santerre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Organization: PAG
> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; U)
> X-Accept-Language: en
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: (no subject)
> Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
> boundary="------------B99F3EC93EF09DB5C01BB652"
