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/
