OT: Kmail, POP3, list, thread and Gmail

[lanzen]

On Tuesday 20 May 2008 01:53:28 Derek Broughton wrote:

> Surely "gmail mail-list" would find this as the
> number one FAQ!  Quite simply, gmail doesn't keep multiple copies of any
> mail with the same message-id.  You send mail, it gets a message id, and it
> comes back with the same ID - so it's discarded.

Nice, that explains it! So, when using a different SMTP GMail receives a 
message-id it hasn't seen previously, does not discard it, treats it like 
something you have not yet read and, when asked, sends it to you.

That's clever! But maybe they should re-think this policy when the mail is 
sent to a mailing lists because it is upsetting many.

-- 
lanzen