Thanks for explaining that, Al; since I had exactly the same problem when joining this list, I have been more careful to change all my subscription addresses to googlemail.com
On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 14:56 +0000, Alan Pope wrote: > 2009/3/20 Rowan Berkeley <rowan.berke...@googlemail.com>: > > Many servers think that gmail and googlemail are two different things, > > so if your emailer sends out your return address as googlemail and you > > personally send it out as gmail, this can cause problems. > > > > That's not the "servers" fault, but googles. > > Anyone who signed up for a "Google Mail" account before the court case > in which it was revealed GMail was a trademark held by another company > would have an @gmail account. Those who registered after would have an > @googlemail account. The problem comes in that google still accept > mail addressed to @gmail to people with @googlemail accounts. However > when people with @googlemail accounts send email it appears to come > from @googlemail and not @gmail. > > This means that people with @googlemail accounts believe falsely that > they have a @gmail account. So they sign up for mailing lists (like > this one) as foo....@gmail.com and then wonder why their mail to the > list bounces because they're not subscribed. The reason being that > mailman will send the confirmation mail to @gmail but any mails the > user sends to the list will appear to come from @googlemail and as > such mailman spits it out complaining that the @googlemail is not > subscribed to that mailing list. > > In my mind that's googles fault for not educating the users about > their address and the implications of having an @googlemail account, > and not rejecting @gmail mail for @googlemail accounts. > > Cheers, > Al. > -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
