Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Andrew Frink <andrew.frink@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Lots of missing gentoo-user mail
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 14:40:43
Message-Id: 8146fc8a0607270736i6d998e4ei2c729c3c707c2773@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Lots of missing gentoo-user mail by Ralph Slooten
1 On 7/27/06, Ralph Slooten <axllent@×××××.com> wrote:
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6 > Hiya,
7 >
8 > For the last 2 years I have been archiving structurally all my
9 > gentoo-user mails I have received into MySQL. In the last few months I
10 > have noticed that I have been receiving more and more broken threads
11 > (In-Reply-To and References), indicating missing mails from those threads.
12 >
13 > At present I use gmail to receive the mail which is then downloaded via
14 > fetchmail to my imap server. Recently I added the
15 > gmane.linux.gentoo.user newsgroup to my thunderbird to make some
16 > comparisons between that I am receiving and what they are receiving. To
17 > my surprise I am missing between 1 and 4 messages per thread (of more
18 > than let's say 10 messages).
19 >
20 > It is not a threading problem, and not a pop3 problem ~ I can confirm
21 > that what I have in gmail is what I have locally.
22 >
23 > To give some examples of totals in some larger threads over the last
24 > couple of days:
25 >
26 > Subject Local gmane
27 > "Kde menu" 11 12
28 > "MythTV vs. Gentoo VDR" 9 10
29 > "PORTAGE_ELOG error" 24 28
30 > "strange [ file" 27 31
31 > "can't install ati-drivers" 13 16
32 > "How packages becomes stable?" 8 9
33 > "Unable to mount root fs on uknown - block (0,0)" 14 17
34 >
35 > I have confirmed that that I have locally is exactly what I have in
36 > gmail, so the problem is not local, and they are not caught anywhere in
37 > gmail's spam filters.
38 >
39 > What I am trying to work out if if it's just me having an issue with
40 > gmail (which I will confront the gmail team there about), or if the
41 > gentoo-user mailing server is skipping addresses or having issues
42 > sending. Tracing mail logs over a few days to check threads can be a
43 > painfully annoying job ;-)
44 >
45 > I am subscribed to other lists too which I seem to be having absolutely
46 > no problems with, although they are somewhat less active than the
47 > gentoo-user one.
48 >
49 > Are any of you (gmail or not) having the same problem? What is the
50 > correct way to go about locating and confronting this issue?
51 >
52 > Thanks for any advise.
53 > Ralph
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63 > gentoo-user@g.o mailing list
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65 > hello,
66 i hear that it's a "problem" with gmail, it would seem that if you sent the
67 mail to a thread it doesn't show up in your inbox.. as it already has a copy
68 and isn't "new" mail

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] Lots of missing gentoo-user mail Ralph Slooten <axllent@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Lots of missing gentoo-user mail Farhan Ahmed <farhanahmed06@×××××.com>