Gmail hides my own kubuntu-users posts

[David Fletcher]

At 10:26 23/01/2008, you wrote:

>That's right! I've been doing that since a couple years ago when I discovered
>this hack by chance and it works. You've got to have another smpt - maybe
>your provider - and set up your GMail account(s) to send though that.
>

Maybe this is related - I have set up a very, VERY simple mailing 
list using procmail for a FOSS users group I'm running with a friend. 
It works by posting to a specific address on my one and one account. 
My home server uses fetchmail to pick up my mail every five minutes 
and pipes it through procmail. If an email was sent to the list 
address, a recipe carbon copies the email to everybody in my list.

The problem I had was that if I send my own copy back to myself at my 
one and one account everybody else receives their copy but I don't - 
I understand one and one use procmail themselves and have a section 
in there to stop mail loops. But if I get procmail to just drop my 
copy into my local mail spool file it works fine.

So at the moment I can't get messages to my own list auto forwarded 
to me during office hours. I'll have to take another look at my 
procmailrc file and see if the sequence can be adjusted to make my 
mail drop directly into the auto forward recipe rather than going 
back around the outside mail box.

One and one seems to not get upset about the same message going back 
out through their SMTP server again - my list relays the messages 
using postfix which is configured to use their authenticated SMTP 
server - it only seems to drop messages that are seen at the same POP 
mailbox more than once. Maybe gmail is being more stringent and 
applies a mail loop rejection rule to messages that previously pass 
through its own SMTP server.

Dave