Unsubscribing
To unsubscribe (leave) a mailing list, the following commands are equivalent:
unsub
uns
unsubscribe
unsuscribe (a common misspelling)
signoff
leave
remove
off
ListManager will look at your email address, determine if your are a member of the mailing list, and remove you from the mailing list.
If you are using the mail merge tag %%email.unsub%%, a unique unsubscribe email address will be generated for each recipient. See Mail Merge Short Tags for more information.
If you are subscribed to a mailing list with a different email address than the one you are currently mailing from, you can specify the email address to unsubscribe on the unsubscribe command line. Whenever this method is used, ListManager will send you a notification with your original request attached. This is done for security purposes, so that you are notified whenever someone who does not appear to be you attempts to unsubscribe you.
When sent to the ListManager address, the command syntax is:
unsubscribe listname [optional: email address OR member id]
When sent to the listname-request address, the command syntax is:
unsubscribe [optional: email address OR member id]
For example, if you are subscribe to a mailing list called "jazztalk" at "lyris.net", you could send the following command to lyris@lyris.net:
unsubscribe jazztalk
If you were subscribed to "jazztalk" with a different email address than where you are currently mailing from, you could specify that email address in the unsubscribe command to lyris@lyris.net:
unsubscribe jazztalk jsmith@example.com
Alternatively, you could have sent the message to jazztalk-request@lyris.net, and thus omitted the list name:
unsubscribe jsmith@example.com
ListManager has the ability to confirm suspicious unsubscribes. If you specify an email address to unsubscribe, and that address is not yours, ListManager will generate an unsubscribe confirmation message, and send it to the address that is being unsubscribed. You will then need to reply to that confirmation message (from any email address) in order to be unsubscribed. This is a security precaution, to ensure that people do not maliciously unsubscribe other people.
Mailing lists may be set up to confirm all unsubscribes; however, it is recommended that unsubscribe confirmation be used only for contentious discussion lists.
Note that you can use the quiet modifier with the unsubscribe command. This allows a member to unsubscribe and then not receive a goodbye document following the cancellation of the subscription.
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The Listname-unsubscribe command address
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