[kwlug-disc] email clients for kwlug - suggestions?

B. S. bs27975 at gmail.com
Fri May 6 08:50:16 EDT 2016


On 05/05/2016 10:33 PM, Chris Irwin wrote:
> Are you looking for a client, or a host?

Service. Client is thunderbird, and, very rarely, the web interface.

> However, it is annoying to not receive the list copy. I could be
> banned, dropped, or caught in a spam filter without noticing.

> On Thu, May 05, 2016 at 08:12:19PM -0400, B. S. wrote:
>> So I switched to gmail ... forgetting that gmail's auto-dedup processing
>> means one doesn't get their own posts to the list. https://wiki.list.org/DOC/I%20use%20Gmail-Googlemail%2C%20but%20I%20can%27t%20tell%20if%20any%20of%20my%20messages%20have%20been%20posted%20to%20the%20list
>

> Neat, because it's basically deduplication. If somebody emails you
> directly, AND a mail list you're on, you'll only end up with one copy of
> the message, even though you'd normally be given a duplicate.
>
> In this case, the message received from the list is a duplicate of the
> message in your sent folder.

Apparently not, per that article. The message from the list would 
contain all the list headers, allowing for things like threading, but 
you don't get it as you have the copy already - in your sent folder. 
(Also sans such headers.)





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