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7.1 How do I turn mail delivery on or off?
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You may wish to temporarily stop getting messages from the
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list without having to unsubscribe.
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If you disable mail delivery, you will no longer receive messages, but will
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still be a subscriber and will retain your password and other settings.
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This can be handy in a many different cases. For example, you could be
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going on vacation or need a break from the list because you're too busy to
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Many mailing lists also allow only subscribers to post to the list, so if you
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commonly send mail from more than one address (eg, one address for at home
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and another for when you're travelling), you may want to have more than
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one subscribed account, but have only one of them actually receive mail.
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may be too busy for you to have sent directly to your mailbox. All you need to do is subscribe, disable mail delivery, and use your password and email to
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To disable/enable mail delivery using the web interface:
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<LI>Log in to your options page. (See Section <A HREF="node9.html#sec:web">3.1</A> for instructions.)
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<LI>Go down to the section marked ``Mail delivery'' and select ``Disabled''
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to stop receiving mail, and ``Enabled'' to start receiving mail.
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To disable/enable mail delivery using the email interface:
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<LI>Send a mail to <span class="email">LISTNAME-request@DOMAIN</span> with the command
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<var>set delivery off</var> or <var>set delivery on</var>.
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<LI>Set it to ``off'' to stop receiving posts, and ``on'' to start
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