On 12/17/14 19:31, Keith Keller wrote:> On 2014-12-17, Bill Maltby (C4B) <centos4bill at gmail.com> wrote: >> I sometimes receive e-mails I post to this list, like I did the bug I >> reported about X problems, but other times not, like my first post about >> that before I reported the bug. > > [snip] > >> I use gmail and ISTR a discussion recently about some issues with that. > > That's actually surprising that you've gotten any copies at all. Gmail > has never delivered a copy of mail I've sent to a list where I'm a > subscriber (which is colossally stupid). So it's totally normal. > > If you want to be sure a message you've sent was delivered to the list, > the surest way is to check the archives. > > http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/ > > --keith >You could also address the email to yourself on a different mail server than the one your sending it from. I send to the list on gmail and address a copy to myself on AOL. -- _ ?v? /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ****
On 2014-12-18, Mark LaPierre wrote:> > You could also address the email to yourself on a different mail server > than the one your sending it from. I send to the list on gmail and > address a copy to myself on AOL.That won't help indicate whether your post made it to the list or not. You'd need to be subscribed to the list from both addresses, and not cc: yourself. But then you'd get two copies of every message, which seems wasteful to me; it seems easier just to check the web archives for the few posts most of us make. (If all you want is a copy of your mail, you don't need to go through this process.) OT: on a handful of Mailman lists, for some reason the SMTP server was slow delivering mail to my mailbox. But responses show up in the web archives pretty much right away. So for some questions I had I would bounce on the archives to see responses more quickly (it would seldom but sometimes be hours between the post hitting the archives and hitting my mailbox). --keith -- kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us
On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 10:56 PM, Keith Keller <kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote:> On 2014-12-18, Mark LaPierre wrote: >> >> You could also address the email to yourself on a different mail server >> than the one your sending it from. I send to the list on gmail and >> address a copy to myself on AOL. > > That won't help indicate whether your post made it to the list or not. > You'd need to be subscribed to the list from both addresses, and not cc: > yourself. But then you'd get two copies of every message, which seems > wasteful to me; it seems easier just to check the web archives for the > few posts most of us make. (If all you want is a copy of your mail, you > don't need to go through this process.)Or, just make the question interesting enough that someone will reply to it.... -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
On Wed, 2014-12-17 at 22:00 -0500, Mark LaPierre wrote:> On 12/17/14 19:31, Keith Keller wrote: > > On 2014-12-17, Bill Maltby (C4B) <centos4bill at gmail.com> wrote: > >> I sometimes receive e-mails I post to this list, like I did the bug I > >> reported about X problems, but other times not, like my first post about > >> that before I reported the bug. > > > > [snip] > > > >> I use gmail and ISTR a discussion recently about some issues with that. > > > ><snip>> > You could also address the email to yourself on a different mail server > than the one your sending it from. I send to the list on gmail and > address a copy to myself on AOL. >That's something I wouldn't mind if I was trying to a) Exit roadrunner dependency 100% and b) simplify things. :-)) Since I'm comfy with searching the centos e-mail lists and/or peeking at my gmail account and seldom believe it was actually *not* delivered, I think I'll just live with it. A suggestion I hadn't considered though and I appreciate that you took the time, which I know is valuable for all of us. Thanks! Bill
On 12/17/14 23:56, Keith Keller wrote:> On 2014-12-18, Mark LaPierre wrote: >> >> You could also address the email to yourself on a different mail server >> than the one your sending it from. I send to the list on gmail and >> address a copy to myself on AOL. > > That won't help indicate whether your post made it to the list or not. > You'd need to be subscribed to the list from both addresses, and not cc: > yourself. But then you'd get two copies of every message, which seems > wasteful to me; it seems easier just to check the web archives for the > few posts most of us make. (If all you want is a copy of your mail, you > don't need to go through this process.) > > OT: on a handful of Mailman lists, for some reason the SMTP server was > slow delivering mail to my mailbox. But responses show up in the web > archives pretty much right away. So for some questions I had I would > bounce on the archives to see responses more quickly (it would seldom > but sometimes be hours between the post hitting the archives and hitting > my mailbox). > > --keith >I'm sorry, I must have misunderstood the OP. Set your mail preferences to send an acknowledgment of your posting. That message will not get helpfully deleted. Then you will know that your posting has made it to the list and, if you followed my first suggestion, you will have a copy of your posting on your other mail account that you can move to your CentOS mail box with a rule. It's clunky as all get out but it works. -- _ ?v? /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ****