For those of us who are using an email client with Gmail as our primary email server - we don't get copies of our own messages to the listservs reflected back to us. Kind of makes a disconnect in the conversation thread. This also happens on Groups as well. Turns out that Gmail automatically sends your listserv copy of your original message into your account archive - not into your Gmail inbox where it can be read by your email client software such as Thunderbird or others. When it goes into the archive, the client software cannot get it because it reads only your Gmail account INBOX. It seems that there is no convenient way to fix this. You can go into your Gmail account, look up the archive, find your copy of the message you sent to the listserv, move into your inbox and then open your client software and download that message. But what a PITA that is. Google mail does this to keep your inbox from becoming overloaded when you are getting mail from a mailing list or group. Kind of silly when your can get all the other message from the inbox. Why just listserv mail that is a copy of your original message? I haven't a clue. Anyway, live with it until some other solution is found, or get another mail server. John Rodgers |
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