[GeoStL] Re: List weirdness

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http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=6588

Messages sent to mailing lists don't show in my inbox

When you send a message to any mailing list you subscribe to, Gmail
automatically skips your inbox and archives the message to save you
time and prevent clutter. The message will appear in your inbox if
someone responds to it or if there is an error delivering the message.
If you'd like to view your message, you can find it in Sent Mail or
All Mail.

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It doesn't just use the From address but also the content of the email.

Timothy

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Mike Lusicic<lusicic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Well, I have to admit that I do NOT know GMail.
>
> It may not be rejecting it because you sent it per se, it could possibly be
> it is an anti-spam measure. I have quite a few spam messages that apparently
> I sent to myself. Why do I bother me so much?
>
> And yes, the header says the messages are "from" the originating sender, but
> the "Reply-to" address and the From IP address, the originating domain, the
> mailer received from all belong to the free list and not GMail. So all it
> really has to go on is what is in the "From" text which doesn't really have
> to contain anything at all resembling a valid name or email address. Oh
> well. I guess that is a feature that can be good in some circumstances and
> limiting in others.
>
> As far as putting the replies and such together based on the thread, that is
> just a sorting technique, or a view option if you will, of the offline mail
> program. I happen to have my stuff sorted by decreasing date and not grouped
> into "thread". However, I do have rules to put my geocaching stuff together
> in a common folder so it isn't intermixed with the other mail I get which I
> tend to want to look at based on date rather than topic. I only follow two
> actual news groups, in my personal email, so all the rest of my email
> doesn't have "threads".
>
> Anyway, thanks for the insight into gmail. As always, technical things can
> get interesting.
>
> Andrew Senger wrote:
>>
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>> Ah. You don't know Gmail very well. It knows you sent that email --
>> your email address is in the "From" slot. I assume that at that point,
>> it compares this email to ones you sent. If it sees it, then it
>> doesn't show it to you as a new email. If anyone responds to it, their
>> responses show up in the thread of your original email. Any emails you
>> reply to that thread fall in line with the thread.
>>
>> For example, this thread has several replies. I don't see a dozen
>> different emails in my inbox -- I see one titled "[GeoStL] List
>> weirdness" . All replies get added to the bottom of the one email.
>> When I click "Send" on this reply, it will show this message in the
>> same thread.
>>
>> I believe freelist has the "Don't send to me" option, but I know mine
>> is turned on. I see the same thing in all my mailing lists: freelist,
>> yahoo groups, google groups, and others run from personal sites. Gmail
>> simply doesn't show your sent emails as new emails coming to you; they
>> realize you sent it and use the sent mail as the one added into the
>> thread.
>>
>> Andrew Senger
>> asenger@xxxxxxxxx
>> http://www.yawetag.net
>> "In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. He's also
>> postmaster and probably traffic cop, too. All the jobs for sports
>> referees are probably filled, though." --Lemel Hebert-Williams
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Mike Lusicic<lusicic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
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>>> I don't think it is quite like that. Even though you sent it, it is
>>> reflected back from the free list. When it does that, the sender is no
>>> longer you, it is the free list, so Gmail doesn't know any better.
>>> However,
>>> there is usually an option on the free list that says whether to send out
>>> messages that you posted to the list. If that option is turned on, then
>>> you
>>> won't see the messages you send because it knows who sent the original
>>> and
>>> won't send another copy unless you have the option on that tells it to do
>>> so.
>>>
>>
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