[ubuntu-uk] Missing post

[Avi Greenbury]

Gareth France wrote:
> On 26/10/12 15:25, Alan Lord wrote:
> >On 26/10/12 15:14, Alan Bell wrote:
> >>On 26/10/12 13:21, Gareth France wrote:
> >>>I posted on here last night about a problem I'm having but it hasn't
> >>>shown up. Are we not allowed to attach photos to the email or
> >>>something?
> >>>
> >>Stuff over 40k gets held for moderation, I released it this morning. (it
> >>was 65k or so I think)
> >>When a 40k attachment gets mailed to 1000 people that is a distributed
> >>storage load of 40MB, so mailing lists tend to have size limits.
> >
> >The more normal approach is to use an online pastebin or imagebin
> >of some description (or you could use your Ubuntu One account for
> >example) and simply provide a URL to the document/image in your
> >message.
>
> I had considered that approach but worked on the theory of 'try it
> and see if it goes first'. I still can't see my post, or any replies
> to it. Would anyone be kind enough to tell me if I have any?

You haven't any yet, but you can see that it's definitely arrived
here:

  https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/2012-October/035289.html

Whether or not you get copies of mail you send to the list is
configurable in mailman, I can't remember what ubuntu-uk.

> On a side note my thunderbird install is behaving oddly. I have
> several folders set up in gmail with filters to direct the mail.
> Even though my machine is set to auto refresh all my mail accounts
> every 10 mins and I've manually used 'get all mail' a number of
> times I had NO EMAIL from email. However clicking on the freecycle
> folder unleased a tsunami of emails, clicking on the ubuntu folder
> where these posts go did something similar.

I'm yet to find a mail client that doesn't do this.

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Avi