OT: Kmail, POP3, list, thread and Gmail

[Lisi Reisz]

On Sunday 18 May 2008 07:14:16 Sylviane et Perry White wrote:
> On Saturday 17 May 2008 18:36, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > > 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. )
> >
> > Yes - I write <mailhost.zen.co.uk>
> >
> > > 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?
> >
> > It doesn't.  It doesn't transit through Gmail. It goes through my ISP's
> > mailserver.
>
> So it will not appear in the "sent mail folder" in Gmail site.
> (snip)

No.  It is on my computer.  Where I feel that my own backup procedures are not 
sufficient I send myself a blind copy to get it onto Gmail.

> >   I have only once - 2 days ago - set someone up to use
> > Gmail's SMTP. (Which, incidentally, now can use port 25.
>
> Funny, I had to change it from 587 to 465 and last time I looked it
> automagically turned to 25.
> (snip)
>
> > > There must be a more direct link between your computer and
> > > Gmail.
> >
> > No, only POP3.
>
> Actually not relevant there since your mail doesn't transit through Gmail.

Quite - that was the point I was trying to make.  But as I said, I have also 
set someone up to use Gmail for everything, and yes, it won't send his own 
mails to him.  But he still has them on his computer.

I have clearly misunderstood what you are trying to do.  I thought that you 
were trying to use KMail with Gmail.

Lisi