[savannah-help-public] [sr #109026] No mail delivered by lists

[Bob Proulx]

Follow-up Comment #3, sr #109026 (project administration):

Are the messages in your Sent folder?

I don't know if what I am going to say is the problem or not but here is what
I know about problematic Gmail accounts.

As far as I know Gmail doesn't show you messages in your inbox that were sent
by you. There is a Google FAQ on it somewhere. (That I failed to find quickly
enough for this reply.) Instead Gmail tags it into your "Sent" folder and
therefore it doesn't show up in your inbox.  Gmail thinks that you saw the
message when you sent it, the message was tagged as Sent and appears in your
Sent folder, and therefore Gmail doesn't show you the message again in your
inbox.  I think that is wrong behavior but Gmail disagrees.

However as soon as someone replies to one of those messages then the
respondents message will show up in your inbox.  And because it is a reply to
one of yours that was in Sent the reply will drag the original message from
you into your inbox along with it. This creates very tragicomical behavior
most of the time in that sent messages are invisible until someone replies to
them.  They become visible in the inbox only when they are replied to.

However if you have a filter rule in place this can be used to tag messages
into your inbox anyway and overriding the default behavior.  You mentioned
filter rules so maybe yours stopped functioning?

Additionally Gmail has a list of addresses for you.  If that list changes and
either adds or removes addresses for you then mail sent from other addresses
that are still you will be either recognized or not and if recognized as an
address that is you then it goes into sent instead of inbox. Maybe your own
address is being recognized now whereas before it was not?

Since all of the messages that you referenced as missing from your inbox were
from you but they were delivered to the mailing list archive this failure
signature matches the above typical Gmail misfeature behavior exactly making
me very suspicious this is the same old issue.


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