OT: Kmail, POP3, list, thread and Gmail

[Sylviane et Perry White]

On Saturday 17 May 2008 17:24, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Saturday 17 May 2008 15:57:25 Sylviane et Perry White wrote:
> > Concerning the second SMTP to send I phoned the technical support of my
> > provider (sunrise) to ask if it would be possible to use smtp.sunrise.ch
> > instead of smtp.gmail.com and they didn't belive it would interface with
> > gmail.
>
> fwiw, I use Kmail, POP3 from Gmail and my ISP's SMTP.
Do you mean that in Kmail settings under sending host you wrote something else 
than "smtp.gmail.com"? (I used to have there "smtp-auth.freesurf.ch" but my 
ISP freesurf made me change. )

I whish I could figure out the details of what happens when you send a mail 
through your  ISP's SMTP...how can this mail know it has to transit through 
Gmail? Using the from address and a name-server as it does with the to 
address? There must be a more direct link between your computer and Gmail.

> I very rarely have 
> any problems and get all emails, including all list emails, even my own.  I
> then archive everything on Gmail.

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