concern that [messages] getting through

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 11:06:58PM -0400, Fairlight wrote:
> Subject changed because I'm sick of approving the whole thread based on one
> word.  :)
> 
> >From inside the gravity well of a singularity, Jay Ashworth shouted:
> > On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 03:42:45PM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
> > > 
> > > That could be your e-mail client.  Some mail clients have a
> > > feature that suppresses mail From: the sender, perhaps on the
> > > theory that you don't need to read something you sent yourself.
> > 
> > Believe it or not, Bill, that's news to me.  Do you have a specific
> > citation on that?
> 
> ~/.elm/elmrc:
> # When you send a message to an alias that contains you, would you
> # like to receive a copy of the message?
> ### metoo = OFF
> 
> That's one instance, and has been extant since I started using elm in '89.

Yeah, but it's not an instance of what Bill was suggesting.  Yours is
filtering mail that the mailer *generates on output*.  Bill seemed to
be suggesting that some mailers would *filter incoming messages* just
because the From address was your own, which is the thing I've never
seen, at least in a default configuration.

Cheers,
-- jra
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