From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Schmidt Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 23:16:59 +0000 Subject: Re: [SPAM Re: [mlmmj] Cannot remove mail adress Message-Id: <4CA51A6B.8000206@yahoo.com.au> List-Id: References: <4CA37FC4.1030500@swn.nu> In-Reply-To: <4CA37FC4.1030500@swn.nu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: mlmmj@mlmmj.org On 1/10/10 7:37 AM, Franky Van Liedekerke wrote: > On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 20:01:39 +0200 > Christian Gleerup wrote: > >> All the files are owned by the user nobody as you correctly guessed, >> to be more specific, >> >> The directories are owned by >> * nobody : nobody * >> >> most of the files in /var/spool/mlmmj/nyhedsbrev/subscribers.d have >> ownership >> * nobody : root * >> few of the files have ownership >> * nobody : nobody * >> >> all the files have ownership u=rw >> >> So I am not sure this is related to ownership, since I could add and >> delete one adress to /var/spool/mlmmj/nyhedsbrev/subscribers.d/c >> while another adress in the same file would move. >> >> I still recieve news letters on that adress that i can't delete, and >> if I try tu unsub without the -s argument, i recieve an email stating >> that I am not subscribed >> >> I tried to add the problematic that i can't delete, and watch the >> following. /$ sudo /usr/bin/mlmmj-sub -L /var/spool/mlmmj/nyhedsbrev/ >> -a cromozon@swn.nu >> [sudo] password for fjernsynet: >> Changing to uid 65534, owner of /var/spool/mlmmj/nyhedsbrev/. >> /$ sudo cat /var/spool/mlmmj/nyhedsbrev/subscribers.d/c | grep >> cromozon cromozon@swn.nu >> cromozon@swn.nu >> >> Note that the mail adress shows up 2 times! >> /var/spool/mlmmj/nyhedsbrev/subscribers.d/c thus contains the same >> mail adress two times! >> > > Is it possible that the unsubsribale address has some white spaces > behind it (or other invisible characters) > in /var/spool/mlmmj/nyhedsbrev/subscribers.d/c? I agree. Also, have you tried unsubscribing through the mail system (assuming it's not a closed list), i.e. by sending mail to nyhedsbrev+unsubscribe@... from the problematic address? Finally...I should say if it's just this one address, not a recurring problem that you need to fix, it wouldn't hurt to find the line in the subscribers.d/c file and just remove it with a text editor. It would be good to know if that illusive extra whitespace is there though, regardless, particularly if you know how the address was subscribed, because there may be a bug in Mlmmj we can track down, or an improvement we can make to avoid it happening again. Smiles, Ben.