Re: [Sheflug] For People with Google Mail Addresses

[Andy Halsall <andyhalsall@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 05 March 2009 12:36:35 Richard Ibbotson wrote:
> Hi
>
> For anyone using Gmail to send to this list and other lists.  I
> thought the following might be helpful.
>
> I've found out by accident (no one told me) that if I want to send
> mail to any list anywhere with my Gmail address then I have to
> subscribe as username@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx  That's *googlemail* and not
> gmail.  Even though my address ends in gmail.com.  Mail will then
> arrive from the list at my Gmail account and I can send mail to the
> list once again.

Further to the above (I already replied using my usual email address 
(andyhalsall@xxxxxxxxx) for this list below..) I have just successfully 
subscribed to this list with my Gmail address (using the @gmail.com domain) 
and, having received my subscription confirmation, and as this email has 
arrived on the list and is presumably visible to you all... it would seem all 
is fine regardless.

So, I would suggest if people are seeing issues with their gmail addresses I 
would check that you did sign up for a gmail account (not a googlemail 
account, I know both **should** work, but believe that this was something for 
transition and related to the dispute regarding the Gmail trademark in the UK 
http://mail.google.com/mail/help/intl/en-GB/googlemail.html) and if you did 
report the failures you are seeing to both google and your list admins...

I suppose it should suffice to say that gmail, whilst a great service, is one 
that (with the free offering at least) has rather minimal guarantees as to the 
level of service you get.


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