Work-a-round for GMAIL's mucho el stupido configuration

Lonni J Friedman netllama at gmail.com
Sun May 31 15:56:38 PDT 2009


On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 3:43 PM, James McDonald
<james at jamesmcdonald.id.au> wrote:
> James McDonald wrote:
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>> On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 8:31 AM, James McDonald <james at jamesmcdonald.id.au
>> <mailto:james at jamesmcdonald.id.au>> wrote:
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>>    OK so I'm now trying the around about method.
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>>    The setup:
>>    Subscribe and post with primary address james at jamesmcdonald.id.au
>>    <mailto:james at jamesmcdonald.id.au>
>>    Create another gmail account and subscribe to linux-users list
>>    Forward mail from the other gmail account to my primary address
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>> Well that was spectacularly unsuccessful. Didn't receive a copy in my
>> primary account even though the secondary account got it and forwarded it to
>> the primary...
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>> This succoth.
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> Maybe it's got to do with SPF or something? The linux-sxs server is not
> authorized to send email 'from' me so Google get's righteous and doesn't let
> it through.
>
> But it's never been a problem with other setups... Sigh.
>
> Anyone know a hack to get this going?

I gave up fighting this over a year ago.  Its the price of using GMail.



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