Re: Convert Forum to Mail List

Posted by GregChapman on
URL: https://support.nabble.com/Convert-Forum-to-Mail-List-tp7580384p7580459.html

Hi Hugo,

Thanks for your feedback. I understand and accept all your points except this one.

Hugo <Nabble> wrote

GregChapman wrote

I would expect to get a copy of my own message back in my Inbox.

If the message was posted by email, then you won't get a copy back (because you already have the original email in your inbox). So this is intentional.

I don't understand this response. You seem to have the case of a web-based forum in mind, where the original post will indeed appear above any reply on the same screen.

However, I am talking mail list with interaction through a conventional mail program. An original post to a mail list will normally be stored in the mail program's Sent Mail folder. If it doesn't get re-served to the subscriber, then the subscriber does not have a complete record of all traffic to the list in his InBox.

With all other mail lists that I subscribe to (regardless of hosts/providers (YahooGroups, Mailman, etc,)) where replies go to the list and not the original poster, then I always receive a back from the list server a copy of any message I post.

This is a vital feature for mail lists. It enables a subscriber to have a complete record of ALL mail list traffic in a single inbound mail folder in their mail program. On my desktop computer I use mail filters extensively, in my mail client, having approaching forty folders for various individuals, topics and mail lists. To have to switch between my Sent Mail folder (and then search through it for my posts to the list) and Mail List folder to see all traffic to that list is not acceptable.

AFTERTHOUGHT: It has just occurred to me that you may only be used to Google's hideous and confusing web-based GMail interface (and the equally weird GMail app on my Android phone) with it's peculiar concept of "Conversations". I use the understandable standard mail app for all my GMail accounts on my phone, and on my desktop use GMail's POP facility to redirect  all my GMail accounts to a conventional mail client. I am sure that most people using Nabble as a mail list archive do the same and up till now there have been no complaints because they are not using Nabble as their mail list server.

PLEASE RECONSIDER YOUR POLICY. Current behaviour is just not acceptable for someone regularly posting new threads (I deliberately avoid using the traditional forum term of "topic") from a conventional mail program and using Nabble as a mail list server.