Dear all, Thanks for the many responses. The various messages (especially the ones on encoding etc.) gave me a hint on how I might try and workaround the issue and I am now happily subscribed although I am not 100% sure what the exact problem was. I guess I should have suspected that it was more of a 'it's only me' problem as google wasn't helping much. First off, I should have specified in my first message that I was using the gmane interface to post my initial request *because* I am not subscribed. I was simply copying the email address from firefox into thunderbird (i.e. manually not using the mailto: link) and sending it using my ISP's smtp. The address was the correct one. I eventually managed to subscribe by sending the email and replying to the confirmation one from the ISP's webmail interface. It doesn't seem to be a thunderbird isssue though, because I tested with another account which lives in the same thunderbird profile using the same procedure and everything work. My suspect is there's 'something' (TM) going on on the ISP smtp but this is really hard to know, as their customer care is terrible and they even closed down the support forums. Anyway, all's well that ends well... hopefully :) Lorenzo -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+help@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***