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5.2 How do I leave a list? (unsubscribe)
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Don't want to be on a list any more? If you're just going on vacation or
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are too busy to read mails and want to temporarily turn them off, you may want
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to stop mail delivery rather than unsubscribing. This means you keep your
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prefer, see Section <a href="node20.html#sec:nomail">7.1</a> for instructions on disabling mail
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unsubscribe from a Mailman mailing list.
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Using the web interface:
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<li>Go to the list information page for the list you want to leave.
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(This will probably be something like
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<a class="url" href="http://WEBSERVER/mailman/listinfo/LISTNAME">http://WEBSERVER/mailman/listinfo/LISTNAME</a>)
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<li>Look for the section marked "LISTNAME subscribers" (usually found
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Enter your email address in the box beside this button and press the
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<li>You should be brought to a new page which has an "Unsubscribe"
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button. Press it to unsubscribe and follow the instructions given.
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Using the email interface:
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<li>Open a mail program which sends mail from the address you want to
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<li>Send a mail to the list unsubscribe address, which will be of the form
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<span class="email">LISTNAME-leave@DOMAIN</span>.
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of this message will be ignored, so it doesn't matter what you put there.
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After following one of these sets of instructions (you don't need to do
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both!), you will be sent a confirmation mail and must follow the
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instructions given in that mail to complete the unsubscription. This is to
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stop people from unsubscribing you without your permission. In addition, a
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moderator may need to approve your unsubscription.
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If you do not receive this confirmation mail with instructions, make sure
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that you typed your email address correctly (if you were using the web
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interface to unsubscribe) and that the address you tried
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to unsubscribe is, indeed, actually subscribed to that list. For security
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reasons, Mailman generates the same member options page regardless of
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whether the address entered is subscribed or not. This means that people
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cannot use this part of the web interface to find out if someone is
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subscribed to the list, but it also means that it's hard to tell if you just
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another message confirming your unsubscription from the list, and at that
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point you should stop receiving messages.
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If you wish to skip the confirmation process (for example, you might be
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unsubscribing an address which no longer works), it is possible to bypass it by
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using your password instead and either logging in to your options page using
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it (See Section <a href="node9.html#sec:web">3.1</a>), or sending it with your email commands to
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LISTNAME-request (See Appendix <a href="node41.html#a:commands">A</a> for advanced email
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unsubscription commands). See Section <a href="node16.html#sec:getpassword">6.1</a> for more
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