Fuzzy Logic wrote: > Any mailling list software which rewrites the Message-ID will cause > Gmail senders to see their reply as a unique message. > > Mailmain claims that it cannot do anything about it, but someone could > quite easily change the software to rename the existing Message-ID to > X-OLDMessage-ID and write a new unique Message-ID. Wouldn't be > RFC-compliant, but possible. > > On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 3:29 AM, bill lam<[email protected]> wrote: > >> On the contrary I would like to learn which mailing lists you >> subscribed can bounce emails back to the same gmail account. > > Sorry Bill and Fuzzy Logic, and thanks for your patience, but I think there must be some kind of miscommunication going on: I do not post from a gmail account, or in other words, I do not start mozilla, log on to their nightmare of an interface, compose a message with their nightmare of an editor, waste five minutes trying to remember which silly little icon I need to click to make sure my message is sent a plain text and not as html.. etc.
I am subscribed to [email protected] under a gmail account but I do all my mailing and composing under mozilla-mail running locally on my laptop. In other words, I use the gmail account as a mail drop because I do not have a fixed IP address, my own domain.. etc. and I do not run a mail server visible to the outside world. As a result mail from [email protected] is sent to [email protected] and I use POP3 to download the contents of that account's Inbox once in a while to my local repository. As to what mailing lists I subscribed to that do deliver copies of my post, here is a simple example: I subscribed to [email protected] on 08/02/2009 specifying the same [email protected] as when I subscribed to [email protected]. On 08/11/2009, at about 7:41 PM EST, I posted a message from this account whose title is "Malformed From: address in headers". This was message was composed and sent using Thunderbird on my local system. A few minutes later I downloaded new messages from pop.gmail.com for the three mailing lists that [email protected] is currently subscribed to, [email protected], [email protected], and [email protected]. As a part of this download, a copy of my message to [email protected] ended up on my system. Some time after 9:00 PM EST on the same day, I downloaded new messages again from the [email protected] account and I had a reply from one Kyle Wheeler, with a timestamp of 8:19 PM. I replied to his post at about 9:34 PM on the same day. You can take a look at the thread at: http://www.mutt.org/mail-lists.html But then mutt-users is a proper mailing list, not a Google group. :-) I repeated the same scenario this morning with the [email protected] mailing list and for some obscure reason, my initial post was never returned to me, which means that instead of using my mailer to follow up, I now have to fire up a web browser - why a web browser, I ask you.. I'm doing email, no..?? what next.. I want to edit a file, can I use vim..?? well no, you cannot, you must use a web browser.. Still doesn't really explain how my initial "Trying to post" message to this "mailing list" made it back to my system, despite the fact that it was posted in the exact same conditions, from the same gmail account.. No big deal anyway.. sorry about the noise and have a nice day. Gen-Paul. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
