The OP could have had a similar problem as I did about a week ago where you subscribed, but would not receive any messages or they were delayed several days. I couldn't figure out if it was a Gmail thing or people just weren't posting and typically this list is busy every day.
I'm think the error message was probably something generated from his IP akin to what was quoted. I also don't think the move to Google servers was the best idea. It seems to have issues that might be more related to Google. As for assuring that you are responding to a message using the appropriate email address, don't most programs allow you to set this up. I use Outlook 2007 and it lets me send messages only using the correct email address. It is also set up to send out plain text only as I've repeatedly told a few of the Legacy police here. Except this doesn't work when I respond to someone who doesn't adhere to this rule so I have to manually convert my reply. I wish the system would do it automatically. What does a mushroom feel like? Bill -----Original Message----- From: Brian L. Lightfoot [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 11:53 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Re: Email problems I think we should all be forgiving for an accidental "hijacking" of a thread. We've probably all been guilty of that at one time in the past or will be in the future. No harm. No foul. But the big question remains as to the OP's problem with posting. Note that he said he was prohibited from posting yet posted a message to that effect. Strange. It doesn't work yet it does. And I am curious about the error message he got, something akin to "You are not allowed to post messages on the LUG...". I'm not sure exactly how it works but if you send an email to the LUG from a non-authorized email account (one different than the one you registered with), does the LUG list server even bother with sending you a reply back telling you that you are not allowed to post. Or is it more probable that the LUG list server just ignores the un-authorized message. So if it just ignores the unauthorized message, how do you explain the error message the OP was getting. That's where I suspected some sort of user access problem on his local computer. At any rate, Sherry pointed out that since many of us have multiple email accounts, that we should be sure to post using only the email account that we registered with for the LUG. This little error probably explains over 90% of the messages that we have seen from new users claiming that they are not seeing any messages in that messages are being sent to a different email account that they are not checking. I've complained before that Millennia has not been open with us about the remaining 10% of the problems. I've asked for a simple explanation such as "Yes, we found a routing issue with the server config", or "Yes, we fixed a problem with certain IPs being blocked" or anything to that effect. I don't think anybody would mind as long as we were just told about it but as a group formed whose mission is to help other users, we get left in the dark and never hear about any problem resolution. Brian in CA Feeling like a mushroom Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
