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[Alan Pope]

2009/3/20 Rowan Berkeley <rowan.berkeley at googlemail.com>:
> Many servers think that gmail and googlemail are two different things,
> so if your emailer sends out your return address as googlemail and you
> personally send it out as gmail, this can cause problems.
>

That's not the "servers" fault, but googles.

Anyone who signed up for a "Google Mail" account before the court case
in which it was revealed GMail was a trademark held by another company
would have an @gmail account. Those who registered after would have an
@googlemail account. The problem comes in that google still accept
mail addressed to @gmail to people with @googlemail accounts. However
when people with @googlemail accounts send email it appears to come
from @googlemail and not @gmail.

This means that people with @googlemail accounts believe falsely that
they have a @gmail account. So they sign up for mailing lists (like
this one) as foo.bar at gmail.com and then wonder why their mail to the
list bounces because they're not subscribed. The reason being that
mailman will send the confirmation mail to @gmail but any mails the
user sends to the list will appear to come from @googlemail and as
such mailman spits it out complaining that the @googlemail is not
subscribed to that mailing list.

In my mind that's googles fault for not educating the users about
their address and the implications of having an @googlemail account,
and not rejecting @gmail mail for @googlemail accounts.

Cheers,
Al.