List entries - gmail

[Marcin ‘Qrczak’ Kowalczyk]

2008/8/11 Verde Denim <tdldev at gmail.com>:

> The messages that I do get from the list come to the Inbox, so they are not
> marked as Spam.

The messages you send are not marked as spam either. You don't see
them because you have already seen them when you wrote them.

>> You don't get an additional copy because you already have the copy
>> that you have sent. In the web interface it is inserted in the thread
>> it is a part of. It can indeed be confusing if you access it via POP3.
>
> Of course, it's in the Sent box. But, if that were the logic behind it, why
> could I set an option on the Ubuntu mailing list to 'have a copy of my
> messages sent to me'... ?

This setting applies to other providers than Gmail, which use a different logic.

The Gmail logic is that messages are not put in separate folders. What
looks like folders are really different views of the single set of all
messages, or rather of conversations (threads) which contain messages.
The same conversation and thus the same messages may appear in
different views. For example a message you have sent to a mailing list
appears both under the label of the mailing list (if you use labels
for that) and among messages that you have sent. There is no need to
have two copies of that message.

This is different from the traditional Unix approach to mail, where
each message may appear only in one folder, and thus it is typical to
have one copy as the sent one and another as the received one. The
confusion arises only where the two worlds meet, i.e. when you access
Gmail via POP3, and it does not offer copies messages that have been
already sent through it.

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Marcin Kowalczyk
qrczak at knm.org.pl
http://qrnik.knm.org.pl/~qrczak/