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Re: Section "Common glitches in the (un)subscription process"



On Fri, 21 Dec 2007, Dennis G. Wicks wrote:
> I have not been able to unsubscribe by sending email to
> "debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org" from this address so I read
> the ref'd section and checked the full headers (source) of several
> emails from debian-user@lists.debian.org and there are no headers
> that even resemble
> 
>    "From bounce-debian-foo=quux=example.com@lists.debian.org
>     Tue Apr 22 01:38:14 2003"

That's the envelope from, and it may be encoded as something like
Return-Path: or similar if you're not using mbox. (Hopefully your
MTA/MDA/MUA doesn't just discard it.)
 
[It's definetly sent out that way by lists.debian.org.]


Don Armstrong

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"I'm a rational being--of a sort--rational enough, at least, to see the
symptoms of insanity around me. And I'm human, the same as the people
I think of as victims when my guard drops. It's at least possible I'm
even crazier than my fellows, whom I'm tempted to pity.
"There seems only one thing to do, and that's get drunk"
 -- Chad C. Mulligan (John Brunner _Stand On Zanzibar_ p390)

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