On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 04:13:15PM -0700, Akshay Hegde via Mutt-users wrote:
> On 2025-04-11 22:55 +0100, Ken Moffat via Mutt-users wrote:
>
> I just send an empty body when I ubscribe/subscribe. And yes, to answer
> your initial question, I use mutt to send the (un)subscribe email.
>
> You should have gotten a confirmation email a few minutes after, which
> you need to reply to. That email mentions that the subject and body
> don't matter. So I leave them as-is.
>
> If you still have issues, reaching out to postmas...@kernel.org may be
> a better avenue to seek help rather than the mutt mailing list. This
> address is also posted at [1]. They were able to look into mail
> deliverability issues I was experiencing, so I can attest to their
> helpfulness.
>
> [1]: https://subspace.kernel.org/vger.kernel.org.html#contacts
>
When I was feeling less unwell I contacted
postmas...@vger.kernel.org, he has now unsubscribed me from that
lsit.
I turned out that a reply to the unsubscribe *did* get sent to me,
but I never received it.
I think that is a "feature" of my upstream (virginmedia) - they have
some filtering supposed to be for trapping spam, but users cannot
control it and it seems to randomly drop mails. On some lists I
have received posts to check if my mail is still working because of
dropped mail.
Meanwhile, yesterday I posted to a texlive list and did not see my
mail appear. A little while later I got a helpful reply which was
"reply to all (list, sender)".
SNAFU.
ĸen
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'The universe is so big, sir, that it obeys all possible laws,'
said Ponder, 'For a given value of "teapot".
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