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Mailman Community,
I've been a Mailman user for a few years but have never been able to figure out this mystery, which may be completely obvious I realize. Someone emails me and requests to be taken off the list. I go to remove them and they are not members. They confirm that they are not on the list under any other email address. How could this possibly happen?
Thanks anyone for your help.
Peter
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On 3/20/2014 11:05 AM, Peter Fiala - WCASA wrote:
Someone emails me and requests to be taken off the list. I go to remove them and they are not members. They confirm that they are not on the list under any other email address. How could this possibly happen?
Have you checked both the mailman and smtp logs to see if the address is being sent the mail by mailman? It's possible that some other entity is forwarding or redirecting the email.
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They were originally subscribed under some other email address (now long forgotten) and that email address is still valid and has forwarding set up. You can verify what is going on by getting the full headers of the message(s) in question (something not always so easy to do).
Farokh
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Peter Fiala - WCASA <mailto:peterf@wcasa.org> March 20, 2014 14:05 Mailman Community,
I've been a Mailman user for a few years but have never been able to figure out this mystery, which may be completely obvious I realize. Someone emails me and requests to be taken off the list. I go to remove them and they are not members. They confirm that they are not on the list under any other email address. How could this possibly happen?
Thanks anyone for your help.
Peter
Peter Fiala Technology & Events Coordinator Wisconsin Coalition Against Sexual Assault (WCASA) 2801 W. Beltline Hwy., Ste 202, Madison, WI 53713 Telephone: 608-257-1516; Direct: 608-284-5494 Fax: 608-257-2150 Website: www.wcasa.org<http://www.wcasa.org/>
Creating the Social Change Necessary to End Sexual Violence Please consider a holiday gift to help us continue our important work into 2014. You can make donations to WCASA directly online by visiting our website<http://www.wcasa.org/>.
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On 03/20/2014 11:05 AM, Peter Fiala - WCASA wrote:
Mailman Community,
I've been a Mailman user for a few years but have never been able to figure out this mystery, which may be completely obvious I realize. Someone emails me and requests to be taken off the list. I go to remove them and they are not members. They confirm that they are not on the list under any other email address. How could this possibly happen?
You need to obtain one of the "list" mails from the user and examine all the headers of that message. This will tell you two things:
That the message did in fact come from your Mailman list if it did.
And if it did, most likely there will be information in the Received: headers that will reveal the member address that Mailman sent to.
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Carl Zwanzig
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Farokh Irani
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Peter Fiala - WCASA