What you can do
How to stop mailing list mail
How to find the list server address
How to restart mailing list mail
For more information
If you subscribe to one or more active mailing lists and you are unable to read mail regularly, for example when the University is closed during a holiday period or when you are on vacation or attending a conference, your mail file (INBOX) may fill up very quickly with unread mail. A very large mail file can cause problems for you and for other users. Your (INBOX) mail file shares the same space on the University's central UNIX systems as the mail files of all other users and allowing those files to grow indiscriminately deprives all users of much-needed space.
- What you can do
Before an extended University holiday or before you leave for more than a few days, 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 e-mail message to the list server (not to the mailing list itself), as shown in the following table.
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| LISTSERV® | signoff listname | set listname nomail | listserv@host.domain |
| Listproc | unsubscribe listname | set listname mail postpone | listproc@host.domain |
| majordomo | unsubscribe listname |
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majordomo@host.domain |
In each case, replace listname with the name of the list and @host.domain with address of the list server. For example, to unsubscribe from the majordomo list "consult-test" which runs on the University's central UNIX systems, you would send a message tomajordomo@udel.eduwith the lineunsubscribe consult-testas the only text in the body of the message.
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.
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- How to find the list server address
- When you first subscribed to a mailing list, you may have received a message with information on general list server commands, such as subscribe and subscribe, and where to send those commands.
- If you don't know the address of the server, you can search for information about your mailing lists in one of the following Web collections:
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- 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 e-mail message to the list server (not to the mailing list itself), as shown in the following table.
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| LISTSERV® | subscribe listname | set listname mail | listserv@host.domain |
| Listproc | subscribe listname | set listname mail ack | listproc@host.domain |
| majordomo | subscribe listname |
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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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