John Beckett wrote: > Patrick Gen-Paul wrote: >> Er.. you mean that if I subscribe [email protected] to the >> [email protected] mailing list, proceed to post a message from my >> machine, I then have to use a web browser rather than my MUA >> to follow up..?? Or in other words I have to subscribe from a >> non-gmail account to function normally within the context of >> this mailing list...??? > > You would only have trouble if you wanted to reply to your OWN > message. Sending a new message and replying to a message sent by > anyone else would be no problem (using whatever mail client you > like). > > As bill lam said, this is a very well known problem to do with > your gmail account, and has nothing to do with the system used > for the mailing list. I also have a gmail account, and am > irritated by exactly the same issue both here and on mailman > lists. However, in practice, it is not a problem because I > rarely need to reply to myself.
Well the explanation was a lot simpler - and now I realize why you had no idea what I was really talking about - and were trying to humor the lunatic ;-) I am dead certain that one of the first things I did was go see if gmail accounts have a Spam folder and if unbeknownst to me, my lost messages had found their way therein. But with Seamonkey eating up 90-99% CPU, as soon as I log on to gmail, I probably mis-clicked on the microscopic link and went to check the Trash folder instead. That would make excellent sense because that's exactly what I did when I was retracing my steps, an hour or so ago.. only this time I caught it.. :-( Well to cut a long story short, I checked again because that was the most likely explanation for the strange things I was seeing, and lo and behold, I found not only my lost messages to the vim list, but also about 50% of the the vim_use traffic since I subscribed. And naturally, since all these messages were marked as spam they were never downloaded to my local system. I have set up a filter to disable Google's spam filter and will see what happens. The reason why the other lists I had subscribed to from this account appeared to work correctly is that they _almost_ did: I only found one message from the mutt-users list and about five from the python list. Interestingly, my "new posts" to vim_use had a nice message at the top informing me that they had been moved to the Spam folder because Google believes that my From: header had been forged...! For some reason, my "new posts" to the mutt-user list were not labeled forgeries.. perhaps because they did not originate from Google groups? So if anyone here uses a gmail account as a mail drop for the vim_use mailing list and you hasn't already addressed this issue, it won't hurt take a quick peek at your Spam folder - you may have been missing on some of the action :-) Thanks much for helping me figure this out. Gen_Paul. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
