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

[Ken Moffat]

I too have started a slow switch to google apps domain. It's not
great, but it's free (well, $10/year for a domain name)  and if you
can get used to the web interface, or set up a local imap client, it's
pretty convenient. I've read posts about a loss of privacy, but I'm
resigned to that. "What, me worry?"

On 5/31/09, GMAIL - James McDonald <james at jamesmcdonald.id.au> 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.
>
>
>
>
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Ken Moffat
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