google mail and thunderbird -

max maximilianbianco at gmail.com
Mon Mar 3 01:08:23 UTC 2008


Bob Goodwin wrote:
> Jacques B. wrote:
>>>  Firestarter indicated port 995 blocked so I opened both of them in the
>>>  attempt to get things working.
>>>
>>>  Curiously I am not seeing my own messages to the Fedora list.  I was
>>>  alerted to that by Carrol Grigsby who sent to my address.
>>>     
>> I don't POP my messages but I do seem to recall that when I'd send a
>> new message to the list I wouldn't see it even though it hit the list.
>>  My replies get sorted in the gmail thread no problem.
>>
>> You'll truly appreciate that part of gmail.  Threads in mailing lists
>> are much easier to follow in gmail online.  When you POP it then it's
>> however your mail application sorts it.  Check it out online and see
>> how easy it is to follow a thread from start to finish and how gmail
>> hides quoted text unless you click on "Show quoted text"
>>
>>   
> Thunderbird has been threading my Fedora List messages for a long time.  
> I don't think you can follow this list un-threaded!
>>>  I noticed yesterday that I wasn't able to send a test message to myself
>>>  at gmail either, some sort of system limitation?
>>>
>>>     
>>
>> No.  When I set up someone with Thunderbird & POP access to their
>> gmail and then sent a message to themselves to test it and it worked
>> fine.
>>   
> Hmm, not sure what's happening but anything I send is hidden from me.  
> The only record of this message I will have will be in the "sent" file.  
> I am not receiving my own messages through the Fedora List, everything 
> else seems to get to me, just not anything from myself?  Google mail is 
> doing some curious things.
>>  
Thunderbird>>Edit>Account Settings>Copies and Folders>Place replies in 
folder of message being replied too (check if this option enabled)

Max




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