Test msg!

[Dave Woyciesjes]

James Freer wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Woyciesjes <woyciesjes at sbcglobal.net>
> To: Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions 
> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Sent: Mon, 8 Aug 2011 22:25
> Subject: Re: Test msg!
> 
> 
> Larry wrote:
>> On 08/08/2011 03:43 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
>>> Colin Law wrote:
>>>> On 8 August 2011 21:20, Dave Woyciesjes <woyciesjes at sbcglobal.net>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> ...
>>>>>        As a Gmail user myself (yeah, I hate to admit it... ;) I do
>>>>> have the
>>>>> option set (in the Ubuntu-Users options) to receive my own posts,
>>>>> but GMail
>>>>> still doesn't pass those on to me.
>>>>
>>>> For me it is only my initial post that is not shown.  Later ones 
> from
>>>> me do appear in my gmail inbox.
>>>>
>>>> Colin
>>>>
>>>     Hmmm, none of the messages I send to Ubuntu-Users (or any other
>>> mailing list I'm on) come back to me....
>>>     I've looked through the GMail settings and found nothing helpful
>>> in that regards...
>>>
>> *I just looked at my gmail mail in the sent mail, and it shows my
>> posting concerning the kernel 2.6.35-30 generic problem for which I
>> still have...
>> So it shows that to me maybe that is not want you mean Colin...
>>
>> TTUL Larry
>     With GMail, you will see your message in the Sent folder, but what
> GMail seems to do is recognize that the message coming back from
> Ubuntu-Users is from you and is already in your mailstore (Sent); so
> then it doesn't give you what it considers a duplicate.
> 
>     From what I've read, GMail's email system eliminates any duplicate
> messages (de-duplication of sorts). Bascially, what it really does is
> put all of your mail into one folder "All Mail"; then simply "tags" each
> message with the name of the folder it should appear in. So, when you
> 'copy' a message to another folder, in reality you are simply only
> adding a tag to it...
> 
> I wouldn't say you're adding a tag to it. From what i gathered gmail 
> uses ONE mailbox 'All Mail' and attaches labels  for the others. e.g. I 
> filter all mail from 'Inbox' to 'All Mail'. I leave the 'Sent' box as it 
> is. Gmail takes some getting used to... i think for mailing lists i 
> prefer other providers (like aol which is what i'm using now). Gmail is 
> a bit awkward if one wants multiple accounts which is the other reason 
> why i changed.
> [sorry if i misunderstood your meaning of 'tag']

	Yep, no worries.. Same idea, different word...

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