Managing Mailing List Mail

If you subscribe to one or more active mailing lists and you are unable to read mail regularly, for example when you are on vacation or attending a conference, your mail file (INBOX) may fill up very quickly with unread mail.

If you won't be reading email for awhile, you can unsubscribe from all mailing lists. If you are subscribed to lists run by LISTSERV® or Listproc software, you can temporarily stop receiving mail from those lists instead of unsubscribing.

• How to stop mailing list mail
  
  To unsubscribe from any mailing list or to stop receiving mail temporarily from a LISTSERV® or Listproc list, send the command appropriate for the list type as the only line in the body of an email message to the list server (not to the mailing list itself), as shown in the following table:

  List type	Command you send...	...	...to an address like this one
  	to unsubscribe	to stop mail temporarily
  LISTSERV®	signoff listname	set listname nomail	listserv@host.domain
  Listproc	unsubscribe listname	set listname mail postpone	listproc@host.domain
  majordomo	unsubscribe listname	(Not available)	majordomo@host.domain

  In each case, replace listname with the name of the list and @host.domain with address of the list server.

  Note: Many mailing lists have Web interfaces that make it easy to unsubscribe or temporarily disable mail delivery. Just go to the list web page to find the appropriate sections.

• How to restart mailing list mail

  To receive mail after unsubscribing from any list or temporarily stopping mail from a LISTSERV® or Listproc list, send the command appropriate for the list type as the only line in the body of an email message to the list server (not to the mailing list itself), as shown in the following table:

  List type	Command you send...		...to an address like this one
  	to subscribe	to start mail again
  LISTSERV®	subscribe listname	set listname mail	listserv@host.domain
  Listproc	subscribe listname	set listname mail ack	listproc@host.domain
  majordomo	subscribe listname	(Not available)	majordomo@host.domain

  In each case, replace listname with the name of the list and @host.domain with address of the list server.

 

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