[Mageia-discuss] who knows about site mageia-br?

[Ahmad Samir]

On 28 September 2010 23:16, Maarten Vanraes <maarten.vanraes at gmail.com> wrote:
> Op dinsdag 28 september 2010 18:42:21 schreef Ahmad Samir:
> [...]
>> Go on using gmail like you do; I've been using it with all the
>> Mandriva ML's for the past 1-2years (web mail via firefox, I didn't
>> use any email clients) and I didn't get any complaints of breaking
>> threads when I post/reply to the ML(s).
>>
>> You see, when sending emails gmail does send the message headers and
>> everything properly.
>>
>> Gmail differs in just how it *groups* the received emails in threads
>> (called conversations in the gmail world). The example I gave, about
>> the bugs mailing list, is a good one, when the subject line changes
>> gmail splits the thread (when you reply to an ML thread you're not
>> changing the subject line); an email client would be more thorough and
>> see that it's the same thread even though one word changed in the
>> subject line (bugzilla adds the keyword to the subject line, e.g.
>> NEEDINFO). But that's probably a corner case.
> [...]
>
> Not to mention that if you're using gmail and you send an email to a mailing
> list, you never know if it was delivered or not, because the mail you send is
> the start of the conversation, you never get your own email. If you'd use IMAP
> on gmail accounts, you'd see it much clearer, because instead of
> conversations, your sent email is in a Sent folder. (which sometimes leads to
> double emails on the list)
>
> I can understand that webbased emails are the best solution for some people,
> but it doesn't have to be gmail; noone is even saying you can't for example
> install a squirrelmail or similar on your home-server. (it's an option)
>

Actually I always find the emails I send to any of the ML's, if I am
the one who started a thread, under "Sent Mail" in Gmail.

-- 
Ahmad Samir