On 6. feb 2006, at 17.43, Paul Tansom wrote:
** Brian Durant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-02-06 16:16]:
On 6. feb 2006, at 15.23, Larry Kollar wrote:
You must verify your email address with Google before you can
post, and
that involves two emails and the links within them. It's bit
cumbersome, but if it keeps the spambots away, it's worth it.
If you have a Gmail account, it's as simple as signing in and
clicking the "Join" link on http://groups.google.com/group/maxlist
Smooth as butter.
I agree with Tim though; you shouldn't have to jump through hoops
to sign up with a different email....
It may be easy to sign up, especially when you have a Gmail account,
but I can't figure out how to be subscribed to the group using
another account (so I don't get MaX e-mails mixed up with other list
e-mails that I archive on Gmail) when you already have a Gmail
account. If I try to register with another account, it won't
recognize me as having a Gmail account and then I have to create an
extra Gmail groups membership account.
** end quote [Brian Durant]
No, I couldn't find any way to do that either. The best option I could
think of (apart from setting up a totally new Gmail identity for this)
was to set up a filter to automatically forward all mail to that
particular group to my main email account. The trouble with this was
that I have the other account set up in Gmail (so I can send out using
it I think, although I've not actually used it). This means that
when I
send mail from Gmail to that account I get a copy in Gmail as well!
What I ended up doing was leaving (for now) all my LEM mail heading
into
Gmail and staying there. I'll likely not be checking it as often, but
I'll look at sorting it out later when I have the time. The only
hassle
here (bar ease of access), is that one of the filters, although
identical to the others, fails to 'skip' the inbox as configured. It
also took me a while to realise that it was automatically threading
the
mail for me. I thought initially that it was deleting previous
posts and
replacing them with the new one until I twigged that the lines in the
header were indicating other emails and not simply extra hidden header
information!!
Personally I would have preferred a Mailman setup on a server
somewhere,
but I guess it all comes down to having the time and funding to do
that,
and Google Groups are free and (from an admin point of view) easy :)
--
Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com
Not to compare who has it worst ;-) but I am kind of up the
proverbial creek in a canoe without a paddle. My ISP has not yet
found a solution to sending mail to Gmail through the ISPs smtp
server, since Google changed their setup. So I am forced to read the
mail from a web browser and send mail from there as well.
Cheers,
Brian
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