[LAU] Account issues

[Ralf Mardorf]

A reply from a mailing list isn't a "real" duplicated mail. Not only
that the receiving time differs to the send time, that might be
ignored, but "From:" and "Sender:" of the mailing list's mail
differ inside this mail, already without comparing it with the sent
mail. The body, subject and the used servers of the sent email differ to
the one received from the mailing list. The mailing lists email also
does include mailing list information, an ID, how to receive help, how
to unsubscribe etc. (it's not only mentioned in the footer, the
body's signature). IOW the reply of a mail we sent is a completely
different email. Many people ask how to unsubscribe, if they would send
a mail and could receive their own mail, that came through the list,
even without a footer, they would get the information inside the emails
header. So, a duplicated email can't be identified by the thread
informations inside the header only. Assumed "gmail merges doubles", is
the header information, the bodies text, including the footer and the
changed subject line merged or is the received email with equal thread
information just eliminated? It doesn't sound like a smart feature, it
does sound like a bug or a feature _against_ mailing lists. A user has
got the choice to turn it off or on, to receive mails sent to a
mailman mailing list by her/him. So the gmail feature is useless for
the user.