Thunderbird: Unsubscribe Mailing Lists
Unsubscribe From Mailing Lists is a free extension for the Thunderbird email client that enables easier newsletter unsubscribing options.
Thunderbird day today? Not sure about that but today is the day where two interesting new add-ons have been published on the Thunderbird website.
Update: Unsubscribe from Mailing Lists has been removed by its author; it is no longer available. There is no comparable add-on available for Thunderbird at this point in time.
The first was the add-on that increased the mass mailing functionality in the web browser. The Unsubscribe From Mailing Lists add-on however enables you to unsubscribe from select newsletters comfortably.
It provides an option to unsubscribe from mailing lists from within the email client. A feature similar to the one that Gmail is offering to its users for some time now.
Unsubscribe From Mailing Lists
The process is simple. The Thunderbird add-on displays an option to unsubscribe from supported mailing lists automatically in the header of emails that are received by accounts managed in the desktop email client.
You need to click on the unsubscribe link in the header to initiate the process of unsubscribing from the mailing lists.
This will display a prompt informing you that the add-on will open a new email message which, when sent by the user, will unsubscribe the email address from the mailing list.
The email usually consists of the email address of the service the newsletter came from and the subject unsubscribe in the email subject with no body text at all.
The unsubscribe link is only displayed for mailing lists that use the Inxmail email marketing service which is used by global brands such as Coca Cola.
This limits the usefulness of the extension somewhat considering that companies may use other mass mailing services for their newsletters. It won't work for instance for most newsletters that include an unsubscribe link that you need to click on to unsubscribe on a website.
Tip: make sure you check the source of the newsletter or email first before you try to unsubscribe from it. Spammers may use the information, that the email account is active since they have received a reply, to fire even more spam your way.
Still, it may be useful to users who get the supported type of newsletters regularly and want a faster way of unsubscribing from them.
The add-on is compatible with Thunderbird 2 and Thunderbird 3 up to beta 3 which excludes the latest release of Thunderbird 3 beta.
The add-on can however be forced to be compatible with the Nightly Tester Tools. A download is available at the Thunderbird website over at Mozilla.
Update: Unsubscribe from Mailing List is compatible with all recent versions of Thunderbird as well. It was tested on a system running Thunderbird 31.
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I think its thunderbird
It is Mozilla Thunderbird.
Awesome! This actually solved my problem… what a stupid bug.
If this is the same bug that I’ve encountered, there may be another fix: (1) hover over open Outlook item in Taskbar, cursor up to hover over Outlook window item, and right-click; (2) this should give you Restore / Move / Size / Minimize / Maximize — choose Move or Size; (3) use your cursor keys, going arbitrarily N/S/E/W, to try to move or size the Outlook window back into view. Basically, the app behaves as though it were open in a 0x0 window, or at a location that’s offscreen, and this will frequently work to resize and/or move the window. Don’t forget to close while resized/moved, so that Outlook remembers the size/position for next time.
THANK YOU Claude!!! I could get the main window to launch but could not get any other message window to show on the desktop. You are my hero!!!!
Solved my issue! 6 years later and this is still problem…
Fantastic. Thank you. Size did the trick.
This solved my Outlook problem, too. Thank you. :)
Thank you so much, this started happening to me today and was causing big problems. You are a life saver, I hope I can help you in some way some day.
You are a god – thank you!
thanks a lot…. work like charm.. :-)
Yah…thanks Claude. I’ve been having the same problem and tried all the suggestions…your solution was the answer. It had resized itself to a 0/0 box. Cheers
Excellent post. This had me baffled even trying to accurately describe the problem. This fixed it for me.
Thank you
Thanks a lot for the article. Don’t know why it happenend, don’t know how it got fixed, but it was really annoying and now it works :-)
Thanks a lot. I was facing this issue from past 3 week. I tried everything but no resolution. The issue was happening intermittently and mainly when I was changing the display of screen ( as i use 2 monitors). The only option i had was to do system restore. But thanks to you.
I’ve been tried to sole this problem for 12hours. Your comment about changing the display of screen helped me a lot!! Thanks!!
Thank you…don’t know why this happened but your instructions helped me fix it. Running Windows 10 and office pro 2007
Great tip! Thanks!
Worked for me, too – thank you!!!
It’s Worked for me, too
thank you very much!
I had a similar issue with Outlook 2013 on Windows 10 and this helped me to fix it. Thank you very much!
Thank you so much. Solved!
Considering you published this in 2012, incredible not been debugged by Microsoft.
Thank you again. M
This problem was faced by only one user logging to TS 2008 r2 using outlook 2010.The issue was resolved.
Thanks.
Great tip. Thank you!!!! If it helps, I had to use the Control Key and the arrow keys at the same time to bring my window back into view. Worked like a charm.
Thank you, this worked !!!!
Man, you are a fucking god. Thanks a lot, what an annoying bug!!
Awesome, this post solved the issue. Many thanks!