Hi John, Protecting Security Information
https://ssl.apple.com/support/security/pgp/ http://www.gpgtools.org/ Secure Email in Thunderbird and Apple Mail with GPG <http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/secure-email-in-thunderbird-and-apple-mail-with-gpg/30936> Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 07/06/2011, at 10:14 PM, Winters John <jcwint...@me.com> wrote: > > Wow Neil, > > I didn't know how easily that could be done. I had to read the raw source of > your email to find the "internode" references in the header, but to a brief > scan it looked really legitimate! Fascinating. > > The set up was slightly different in Mail vs Enter-rage but I made the switch > and managed to unsubscribe my old email address. > > Now if I had tried to unsubscribe you (or anyone else) from the list there is > the protection of a confirmation email to which you must respond that would > alert you to any skulduggery. > > I seem to recall that it is possible to use public key encryption or > something similar to make it harder for your emails to be spoofed. Is there > anything like this that can be integrated into and used with Mail on the Mac? > > Regards, > John > > On 06/06/2011, at 3:41 PM, John Winters wrote: > >> ***NOTE This email was sent by Neil Houghton NOT John Winters*** >> >> Hi, >> >> The thing about unsubscribing from lists is that the list has to think that >> the email has come from the email address that you are trying to >> unsubscribe. >> >> The other thing about this is that it really doesn't matter if that email >> address is still working or not -you can still send an email that uses the >> old email address as the "from" address - this is a typical trick used by >> spammers and is the reason why you sometimes get complaints from people that >> you have sent spam or viruses or whatever - you know you didn't do this but >> it probably got sent with your address in the "from" field after somebody >> harvested your address - Peter H touched on this in his answer to the "email >> hacked?" post. >> >> Now doing this to someone elses email address is, of course despicable and >> reprehensible - however doing it with your own obsolete email address, to >> unsubscribe it from a mailing list is quite easy and IMHO quite right & >> proper! >> >> To show how you would do this, I have sent this email using YOUR email >> address - I hope you are OK with this, it was just done to show you how to >> achieve your goal. >> >> The following steps are in Entourage (my email client) - but the basic >> premise is the same whatever email client you use: >> >> Create a new account (Tools/Accounts, select mail, hit new) >> Select type POP 7 hit OK >> Give the account a name - I used john test >> Put your old email in the email address (I used the address from your post) >> Under Receiving Mail - leave everything blank (you are not trying to receive >> email with this temporary account) >> Under "Sending Mail" - put in your normal STMP server (in my case >> mail.internode.on.net) >> Hit OK >> I get a message asking me to fill in the receiving mail details and warning >> that if I just hit OK I will only be able to send (not receive) emails - >> which is what I want - so, hit OK. >> >> The new account has been created. >> >> I write this email and select the new account in the "from" dropdown box. >> >> I send the email. I will now immediately delete this test account - so I >> cannot accidently send any other emails purporting to be from your account. >> >> >> HTH >> >> >> Cheers >> >> >> >> Neil >> -- >> Neil R. Houghton >> Albany, Western Australia >> Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 >> Email: n...@possumology.com >> >> >> >> on 6/6/11 12:03 PM, Winters John at jcwint...@me.com wrote: >> >>> >>> Actually, >>> >>> I have exactly this issue, and I've been receiving duplicate emails for some >>> time. >>> >>> I had originally subscribed to WAMUG using my ~@mac.com address, then years >>> later when Apple forced people (subscribers actually) to use the ~@me.com >>> for >>> outgoing mail, I changed my "Mail" settings and found that although I could >>> still receive WAMUG posts on my ~@mac.com address, I could not send to the >>> list because the ~@me.com emails all bounced as an "unsubscribed" address. >>> When I later re-subscribed with the ~@me.com I started getting duplicates of >>> everything, but I could at least post again! >>> >>> If I use the unsubscribe link, from my current email settings, I'll >>> unsubscribe the NEW listing, and, like Stephen, I can't see a way to use the >>> OLD email address as it no longer works. I checked the WAMUG website and did >>> send an email to "wamug-own...@wamug.org.au" (which seems to have >>> disappeared >>> from the website now) but didn't hear anything, so decided to live with the >>> duplicate posts. >>> >>> So Daniel. If you're the man with the subscribers list, could I ask that you >>> scroll through that long list again and delete <jcwint...@mac.com>, please? >>> >>> Regards, >>> John >>> >>> On 04/06/2011, at 1:50 PM, Stephen Chape wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Thank you very much Daniel >>>> I was concerned that unsubscribing would simply unsubscribe my new email >>>> address. >>>> There did not seem to be an option to insert my old email address. >>>> Once again thank you ! >>>> >>>> On 04/06/2011, at 11:35 AM, Daniel Kerr wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> Hi Stephen >>>>> >>>>> You can still send an email from your "old " email address. You just >>>>> change >>>>> the details in your account as showing the "From" Address. >>>>> However, on this instance I've gone and removed it manually. We prefer >>>>> members to do it, rather then spending 5 minutes scrolling through a long >>>>> list trying to find it :o) lol >>>>> >>>>> But your old address has now been removed. >>>>> >>>>> Kind regards >>>>> Daniel >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On 4/6/11 9:09 AM, "Stephen Chape" <chap...@bigpond.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks Daniel >>>>>> Problem is that my old address is now "kaput" "nix" "gone" !!! >>>>>> >>>>>> On 03/06/2011, at 11:39 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Just need to send an email to the address at the bottom of the wamug >>>>>>> mail >>>>>>> header from your old address. That will unsubscribe it. >>>>>>> Ie > Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Kind regards >>>>>>> Daniel >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On 3/6/11 11:28 PM, "Stephen Chape" <chap...@bigpond.com> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Hi there folks, >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I have just subscribed to mailing list using my new email address, >>>>>>>> but I do not know how to unsubscribe the old one [ch...@westnet.com.au] >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Regards, >>>>>>>> Stephen Chape >> >> > > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
