FAIL: Thunderbird: Replying to thread

[Ed Greshko]

On 07/29/15 07:02, Greg Woods wrote:
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> On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 4:28 PM, Rich Emberson <emberson.rich at gmail.com <mailto:emberson.rich at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     When I reply to a thread using Thunderbird, the response never
>     shows up, but, if I include the email of the person who wrote
>     the thread I am responding to, that person gets the email.
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>     On the other hand, if I log in to my gmail account
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> Stop right there. This unfortunately sounds like a well-known Google-ism. If you send mail to a mailing list that you are on, it does not put the message in your Inbox. Our users have complained about this countless times, but Google is a giant and we are small potatoes, so it's not going to change.

Yes, I use T-Bird almost exclusively and without issue.  A "simple" way, and the way I use, to fix it is to use gmail's filters to put emails from mailing lists into their own folder and bypass the INBOX.

I prefer to do it that way since that is how I've things for  a long time....dating back to when I ran my own mail server.  I also have different retention lengths for various mailing lists which is managed by T-Bird.  Why should I archive everything when fedora holds it?  :-)
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> Check and see if the messages in question are in your All Mail folder (if you are able to see this through an IMAP connection with Thunderbird). Otherwise you would need to log in to your Gmail account through the browser interface to check.
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> I do manage to get the mailing list mail into my Inbox, but only because I have filters (at Google) that explicitly label the mailing list messages.
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