[kdepim-users] gmail / google apps, dIMAP and kontact

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Wednesday 02 April 2008 18:58, (``-_-´´) -- Fernando wrote:
> 	GMail absorbs the received email if it is the same as the sent, so when
> sending an email via smtp to your own address, it will only be kept on the
> Sent folder (and of course on ALL MAIL); To prevent spam, GMail limits its
> smtp to pre-authorized address (more can be added on Gmail Settings). So if
> users try sending emails via their GMail smtp account with another FROM
> address, it will be replaced with the default FROM address. Reply-to can be
> changed by the user without any problem;

I switched things over to gmail some time back and ran into one problem that 
was enough of an issue for me that I switched back to using Verizon's 
servers.  I send a message out to a mailing list,  like this one,  and I know 
that it got to the list when I see it showing up there.  As,  I get one in 
that's _from_ the list (not from me).  For some dumb reason google has 
decided that I don't need to see these,  and I never get to know for sure 
whether something I've posted has made it to a list until I start getting 
replies to it.

An attempt to correspond with them about this was pretty much fruitless.

Also,  locally I have both stuff from my inbox and stuff from my sent-mail 
folders sorted out into other folders that are pertaining to particular 
individuals that I correspond with.  An attempt to get some similar 
organization going with the stuff that's sitting in the "boxes" at google 
turned out to be an exercise in frustration -- their system would _not_ let 
me do that with some of my correspondence,  I could mark things in the inbox 
as belonging to certain conversations and tell it to archive them and it 
would effectively "move" them to those folders,  but attempting to do the 
same thing with things in the sent-mail folder simply didn't work.

So apparently you can't choose how you organize your emails there,  it's their 
way or not at all.

I used gmail as a backup these days,  and poll it maybe once a week,  but 
won't bother with it otherwise.

-- 
Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space,  a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed.  --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James 
M Dakin
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