Bear in mind that we do NOT receive our own posts (Re: Lost mails)

[Merle Reine]

I am on multiple mailing lists and the default behavior is to receive your
own email also.  I personally like it as obviously do many others or it
would not be the default on most mailing lists.  I also use mailman in our
corporate office and we do the same thing.

On 8/28/07, Boyan Tabakov <blade.alslayer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 29 August 2007 02:39:46 Clinton E. Troutman wrote:
> > On Tuesday 28 August 2007, Stephen Dowdy wrote:
> > > > This might be significant...
> > > > I have my several GMail accounts all set to the ALL messages POP
> mode.
> > >
> > > Probably. And i wonder if you set your POP mode to "new only", if
> you'd
> > > stop seeing your maillist postings getting downloaded. IIRC, POP Mode
> > > "New Only" only pulls down stuff in Inbox that's newer than the
> running
> > > timestamp. From the Help center note, that message won't be in the
> Inbox
> > > anymore, but will be in the All-Mail box.
> >
> > It occurs to me that, when set to "new only", GMail may equate the
> incoming
> > message to a message that already exists in the Sent Mail folder thus
> > causing the incoming message to be marked something other than "new"...
> >
> > Could be an interesting investigation...
> >
> > I suspect the Official Help Center Message translates to "we don't know
> > what's going on so, instead of spending too much time on it, let's put
> > something in the FAQ".
> > - Folks receiving the expected behavior would not look at the FAQ
> > - Folks not receiving the expected behavior would say "Oh..." and not
> > submit a help request
> >
> > After all, IIRC, GMail is still "by invitation only" and considered (by
> > Google) to be a service still in Beta.
>
> Hi all,
>
> Excuse me, but why do you actually want to receive your own posts? You
> posted
> those, so you already have them? The only reason I can think of is if
> trying
> to use separate accounts for sending the mail and receiving the mailing
> list
> posts. But if you are doing so, you are likely to have a mail client and
> thus
> eliminating the issue.
>
> I use (as you may see) a gmail account for this mail. I use KMail. When I
> send
> a mail from KMail, I can save the sent mail whereever I want, so that I
> don't
> need to get it back from the mailing list. If I send a mail through
> gmail's
> web interface (which I mostly don't do), I can download that mail via POP.
>
> Maybe I don't understand the issue correctly and if so, please excuse me
> and
> clarify...
>
> Best regards
>
> --
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>
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> I was weak, yet not unblessed.
> Dead to the world. Alive for the journey.
>                               --Nightwish
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