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

[Tim Wunder]

On Sunday 31 May 2009 08:02:00 pm GMAIL - James McDonald wrote:
> Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> > On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 3:43 PM, James McDonald
> >
> > <james at jamesmcdonald.id.au> wrote:
> >> James McDonald wrote:
> >>> On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 8:31 AM, James McDonald
> >>> <james at jamesmcdonald.id.au <mailto:james at jamesmcdonald.id.au>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>    OK so I'm now trying the around about method.
> >>>
> >>>    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
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> 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...
> >>>
> >>> This succoth.
> >>
> >> 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.
>
> The only way I can imagine to fix this to run a mail server somewhere
> and get re-writing going for the envelope and header addresses. So it
> doesn't complain.
>
> My whole point of moving to GMail was so I can push away from my desk,
> shutdown my computer, and look at my wife with full attention.
>
> So this annoyance I will have to live with. The benefit to GMail is I
> don't have my computer at home having to be on all the time because of
> running a mail server.
>

I no longer host my own mail for the very same reason. I keep a rudimentary 
web site at siteground.com which includes mail hosting for my domain. It's 
not free, but I no longer need to run my computer 24x7. Plus, I'm still 
gmail-free. ;)

Tim

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