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gmail and mailing lists [Was: Re: Network is unreachable email error]



On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 11:27:13AM +0000, Mihira Fernando wrote:
 
> Have to disagree there. If you send a test mail to yourself using a gmail 
> account, it WILL come to your gmail inbox.

AFAIR the mail would show up in Inbox, but I couldn't download it. Maybe 
things changed? 

> The reason why most mailing lists doesn't show your own post to the 
> list is that the setting in the mailing list is not to send a copy of 
> your own mail to yourself.

What mailing list are you talking about? All debian lists send a copy of 
your e-mail by default and all other mailing lists I have ever been on.

> With regards to using a mail retriever with gmail, I find that mpop is the 
> easiest to configure and using it along with msmtp works like a charm.
> 
> The mpop downloads the mial form gmail and using msmtp, it submits the mail to 
> postfix which then delivers it on to your local mail box.
 
Maybe my definition of simple is a bit different than yours. I use 
getmail for POP. Though it could deliver directly I use maildrop for 
delivery because I need some sorting/filtering.

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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