This probably explains why I only get one copy even when people reply to my posts. My email provider (Aluminati) probably does the same filtering of two copies in my inbox down to one. I didn't realise this is at all common.
-- Owen Smith <owen.sm...@cantab.net> Cambridge, UK On 10 Nov 2014, at 17:36, Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer <jn.ml.gti...@wingsandbeaks.org.uk> wrote: > David Woodhouse <dw...@infradead.org> wrote: > >> On Sat, 2014-11-08 at 23:54 +0000, Square Penguin wrote: > >>> Quick question - how do you deal with CC's in your inbox and duplicate >>> messages in mailing list folders (assuming you filter to folders)? >>> Simply ignore the duplicates or do you have a filtering/deletion scheme >>> in place? >> >> I get a copy in the list folder, and a copy in my inbox. > > Lucky you. (I mean it.) I found recently that this doesn't happen for me; > it's not a (local) mail client problem but instead my mail provider (AAISP) > whose system detects two copies of the same mail being delivered to the same > mailbox on their server, and stores only one copy. My POP3 collection then > only collects that single copy. > > To get both I'd need to define filter rules on their server to route > personal mails to one server mailbox and list mails to another mailbox, then > fetch from both. > > And even then, if eg someone CCed something to two different personal > addresses of mine, those would be routed to the same server mailbox, and I'd > only get one copy. I'm not wildly happy about that... > > If I had just one or two email addresses I might be willing to have a > mailbox for each one... but I don't. I've hundreds of addresses, and I do > not want the hassle of having to define matching mailboxes for each of them. > > The mails in this thread that people have thoughtfully CCed to me personally > have arrived, but the mail-list ones have not. > > -- > Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. > > _______________________________________________ > get_iplayer mailing list > get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer