Email account that works for this mailing list

[Robert Heller]

One gotcha with GMail (its a features not a bug) is that GMail will "hide" 
from you messages *you* send to mailling lists.  Eg you won't see your own 
posts.  GMail is "protecting" you from duplicates.

At Thu, 16 Oct 2025 22:31:46 -0400 "Ubuntu user technical support,? not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users writes:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > does anyone know of an email service provider that
> >
> > - is free of charge
> > - does not require a smartphone (I only have a landline connection)
> > - does not move too many emails from this list into the spam filter on
> >   the server side
> > - offers POP accounts
> >
> > With my current Yahoo account, I have to constantly log in to Yahoo to
> > retrieve emails from the spam filter on the server.
> 
> A brief inquiry suggests that Gmail offers POP3 access. It's not enabled by  
> default, but needs a moment to enable. Better yet: if you have POP3 you  
> probably have IMAP, too. With IMAP you can always peek into the spam folder  
> on Gmail, without logging in. I have no specific first-hand knowledge of  
> Gmail's attitude towards Ubuntu mailing list, but my experience with Gmail  
> is that it's false positive rate is very low.
> 
> 

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