OT: Kmail, POP3, list, thread and Gmail

[Sylviane et Perry White]

On Saturday 17 May 2008 06:33, lanzen wrote:
> On Friday 16 May 2008 19:42:56 Sylviane et Perry White wrote:
> > The mails I send to this list appear in my Gmail mail box but *are not
> > retrieved by KMail*.
>
> What is happening is that GMail is not forwarding you _your_ sent mails.
> Everybody else sees them.
Exactly.
>
(snip)
> I had a similar situation. You said you closed your previous account, do
> you have another one - not GMail - you can use? More about it later.
No
(snip)
> What I do - works.
>
> When sending to the list I've set up Kmail to use another SMTP. It can be
> your provider's, and in this case it might not require authentication, or
> any other SMTP, authenticated, but NOT GMail's.
>
> Solution n. 2 is using Knode (or similar Newsgroup agent),
>
> > Would IMAP be better?
>
> It would if either:
>         you don't have another usable SMTP
>         you prefer IMAP vs POP
>
> > Any other suggestion or place for help?
>
> I've set up GMail, on their site, for IMAP.
> Get mails in Kmail through POP
> When on a different machine use IMAP (e.g. in Thunderbird).
>
> > P.S. Of course it is possible to retrieve those mails in such a way that
> > they intergrate in KMail's threads, but it's really an hassle.

Thanks a lot, Lanzen
I will try to investigate on the possibility to get another SMTP or see what I 
can learn about Knode.

Perry
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