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Month: December 2015

Re: [trinity-users] Please Ignore - Just Testing

From: Andrew Young <mail@...>
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2015 13:00:02 +0000
On 03/12/15 12:29, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Thursday 03 December 2015 11:47:12 E. Liddell wrote:
>> On Thu, 3 Dec 2015 10:54:08 +0000
>>
>> Michael Howard <mike@...> wrote:
>>> On 03/12/2015 10:47, Andrew Young wrote:
>>>> On 02/12/15 20:25, Michael Howard wrote:
>>>>> Please excuse and ignore this message (if it arrives) I'm having
>>>>> problems receiving messages from the list(s).
>>>>
>>>> Google mail users and Google hosting customers have issues receiving
>>>> their replies to the Trinity mail lists. I know I won't receive a copy
>>>> of the this reply
>>>>
>>>> Andrew
>>>
>>> Maybe Google are rejecting emails from the list due to an rDNS failure :)
>>
>> No, their problem, IIRC, is that the DKIM signature in the header does not
>> match the message, giving the impression it's been tampered with (which,
>> technically, it has been).
>>
>> E. Liddell
>
> No, although all these things are true in general, they are not the problem
> referred to by Andrew.
>
> Gmail deliberately does not send you copies of your own emails.  This is
> policy, not a bug, according to Gmail.  It also suppresses all
> other "duplicates".  (What you send is a duplicate because it will be in your
> sent folder.)
>
> The _solution_, not the problem, is to use a different smtp server, not
> Gmail's smtp server.  This results in the DKIM signature not matching as E
> Liddell says, but Gmail then sends you your postings and I get copies of
> everything I send to the list.  The non-matching DKIM signature *very*
> occasionally causes me problems elsewhere.
>
> Lisi

Thanks Lisi

That's interesting. I've just changed my SMTP server, maybe I'll see 
this reply. Or perhaps it'll be lost.

Andrew