Re: [fetchmail-users] Are my messages being blocked?

[Anne W. <can...@go...>]

On Sunday 26 Aug 2007, Gerard Seibert wrote:
> On Sunday August 26, 2007 at 05:10:23 (PM) Anne Wilson wrote:
> > I've been trying for almost two days to get a message through but they
> > never appear.
> >
> > Anne
>
> You do seem to be having a great deal of trouble; however, I am unsure
> as to what you are specifically referring to. All of the messages that
> you have sent have been received. At least it would appear to be so.
> Why do you think they are not?
>
> Are you failing to receive a copy of the message you sent returned to
> you via this group? If that is the problem, and I think it is, and you
> you are using GMail, and your address would indicates that you are,
> then that is your problem. Google had decreed that you do not have
> that right. When you send a message to a forum such as this, Google
> will not place that message in your in-box when it is relayed by the
> forum you sent the message to. It conveniently loses it. This is a
> well know and documented feature(?) of Google's email system.
>
> Might I suggest that you get a real email provider. Why not simply use
> your ISP's email service for starters. In any event, lose GMail. They
> are the worst service around. They even make 'Hotmail' look good.
> Actually, the new version <http://get.live.com/> isn't all that bad
> when compared to GMail.

I do have 'good' email providers - two, in fact.  You are mistaken, too, in 
your comments about gmail.  I always receive, forwarded to me for reading in 
kmail, copies of all messages I send to lists.  The reason I use gmail for 
lists is quite simple - they manage to trap about half of the spam that comes 
through.  Yes, I need to check their spam pages quite often, but there are 
few false-positives - I'd say about one in 200 at most.

Thanks for trying to help, but it wasn't gmail's fault.

Anne