[Mageia-discuss] who knows about site mageia-br?

Wed Sep 29 20:38:01 CEST 2010

Op woensdag 29 september 2010 03:45:38 schreef Ahmad Samir:
+> On 28 September 2010 23:16, Maarten Vanraes <maarten.vanraes at gmail.com> 
+wrote:
+> > Op dinsdag 28 september 2010 18:42:21 schreef Ahmad Samir:
+> > [...]
+> > 
+> >> Go on using gmail like you do; I've been using it with all the
+> >> Mandriva ML's for the past 1-2years (web mail via firefox, I didn't
+> >> use any email clients) and I didn't get any complaints of breaking
+> >> threads when I post/reply to the ML(s).
+> >> 
+> >> You see, when sending emails gmail does send the message headers and
+> >> everything properly.
+> >> 
+> >> Gmail differs in just how it *groups* the received emails in threads
+> >> (called conversations in the gmail world). The example I gave, about
+> >> the bugs mailing list, is a good one, when the subject line changes
+> >> gmail splits the thread (when you reply to an ML thread you're not
+> >> changing the subject line); an email client would be more thorough and
+> >> see that it's the same thread even though one word changed in the
+> >> subject line (bugzilla adds the keyword to the subject line, e.g.
+> >> NEEDINFO). But that's probably a corner case.
+> > 
+> > [...]
+> > 
+> > Not to mention that if you're using gmail and you send an email to a
+> > mailing list, you never know if it was delivered or not, because the
+> > mail you send is the start of the conversation, you never get your own
+> > email. If you'd use IMAP on gmail accounts, you'd see it much clearer,
+> > because instead of conversations, your sent email is in a Sent folder.
+> > (which sometimes leads to double emails on the list)
+> > 
+> > I can understand that webbased emails are the best solution for some
+> > people, but it doesn't have to be gmail; noone is even saying you can't
+> > for example install a squirrelmail or similar on your home-server. (it's
+> > an option)
+> 
+> Actually I always find the emails I send to any of the ML's, if I am
+> the one who started a thread, under "Sent Mail" in Gmail.
+
+Well, yes, but you didn't find the instance that passed through the mailing 
+list and got sent back to you. (that one will have different headers (Received 
+headers and the like).
+