Broken mail readers (was Re: Properly wiping a hard drive ?)

[David]

On 10/10/2010 1:48 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>   On 10/10/10 12:57, Tom Horsley wrote:
>> On Sun, 10 Oct 2010 12:43:38 -0400
>> Bob Goodwin wrote:
>>
>>> Not sure I understand this? With Thunderbird's Account set to BCC me
>>>      I get a copy every time.
>> That's just the one you sent going directly back to you. If you
>> want to know that your message actually made it to the list
>> you need to get the one that takes the round trip to the list
>> server and back, and that one is the one discarded by gmail.
> 
>             Ok, I see what you are saying. I probably had that copy when
>             Wildblue ran their own mail server and lost it when they
>             switched.  The BCC helps maintain continuity in the thread
>             but does not insure that anyone else actually saw my
>             message. Fortunately the mail system seems to have worked
>             for me so far ...
> 
>             If I get no response to a question I assume no one knows the
>             answer.



The Bcc: does put your message in the thread in your email client that
Gmail does not send to you.

But you can set the mail server to send you a confirmation that your
message has been received when you post to this list. Actually all of
Fedora's lists have that setting.
-- 


  David

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