email discard

All these days, I was believing that the perfect Gmail was the be-all and end all of email. But Gmail gave me a rude shock proving me wrong, with its own irritating bug set. I am subscribed to a lot of mailing lists and I send posts to them often. For the past few months I was finding that my messages to the list weren’t getting delivered to me after I send them. I double-checked my mailing list settings and found that they were perfectly okay. Sometimes, my mails got delivered late I thought.

After some researching and help from a few expert friends, I found out that once I send a mail to a mailing list, Gmail keeps a copy of the sent mail. When the mailing list bounces my post back to me, Gmail considers it to be a duplicate of the existing email and simply discards it. Later when someone else replies to the thread, my sent mail gets  tagged on to the conversation and gets displayed in the unread mail. But my mail sent to me from the list gets discarded. 🙁

It is so irritating when Gmail decides to discard MY EMAIL without my knowledge and I don’t like it a bit when Gmail decides what to keep in my inbox.

I am not the only one who experienced this bug there are many crying out, but Gmail doesn’t seem to listen. If such irritating issues continue, I wouldn’t mind dumping my Gmail account for an account from a better email service provider.