[Mailman-Users] Mailman never replies to e-mail

[Dragon]

Sjors Gielen wrote:

>I've just tried sending myself an e-mail again, and it is delivered to
>Mailman, but I now don't even see an error message appear in the
>errorlog, it doesn't even *try* to send a reply.
>Also, I have Postgrey installed with Postfix, so that might be why the
>message couldn't be sent. However, since Postfix then sends a 4xx reply,
>shouldn't Mailman retry sending after ten minutes or so?
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I see you are posting from a Gmail account.

I will lay 100% odds that this is the problem.

Gmail has a really unhelpful "feature" of hiding messages it receives 
that have the same message ID as one sent from your Gmail account. 
Now if somebody else were to post a reply to the list to that 
message, Gmail will "magically" display that message in the thread.

This is a well known issue here on this list and I know a number of 
Gmail users have complained about it but Google apparently has no 
intention of fixing it (last I heard).


Dragon

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