On 14/11/11 11:19, Dan B. wrote: > Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 13/11/11 16:14, Doug wrote: > ... >> >>> GMail deliberately removes your own list messages so >>> you can't see them and know that you actually were successful in >>> posting. >> >> Well, no. >> Not that I have shares in Google - just a dislike for BS and trolls. >> The gmail default settings is to *not* provide you with a duplicate in >> Sent mail. > > Why would there be a duplicate in _Sent_ mail?
> > Only the message you sent out should be in the Sent folder--the message > back from the mailing list is a different message (e.g., with added > mail-transfer header fields (e.g., Received), mailing list header fields > (e.g., List-ID), and modifications to the body (e.g., the mailing list > signature), and is not the message you sent out. Although it usually > contains almost everything from the original message (though not BCC > header fields), it is not a duplicate. Are you serious? > > A mailer shouldn't forcibly* treat the second message as a duplicate of > the first. (*That is, without giving the user a choice.) > > It sounds like GMail/Google is judging whether a message was "Sent" by > the From: header field (or whatever) rather than by the simple fact of > whether it was actually sent (through GMail's mail-sending actions) > or received. Gmail's reasons for the policy have been posted previously in this thread. > > (A similar problem can also occur with BCC copies to oneself in some > mailers.) > Which would beg the question "why would anyone do that" - if I didn't have better things to do, or a total lack of desire to understand the "reasoning" of the insane. :-) For the same reasons - it's a totally unnecessary waste of resources. Not changed by the fact that some mentalities "don't get it". > > Daniel > > Cheers -- Iceweasel/Firefox extensions for finding answers to Debian questions:- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collections/Scott_Ferguson/debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4ec065c2.7040...@gmail.com
