Ah, email....
I've just got a shiny new Worldcon-related email address, and today I was trying it out.
It turns out that I can email X's loncon3.org address, and Division A, but I can't email Y, or Division B. I can email Division C, but only on two out of three occasions.
When the emails don't go through, they don't bounce. They go to the catch-all address that receives emails to non-existent addresses at the domain. That's annoying but, on the plus side, that address is the next laptop over on the coffee table, so I did at least find out (when Mike had finished mowing the lawn).
The best solution that we could think of was for Mike to change that address to be me, and then I could also forward any occasional mis-addressed emails as well.
Then we sent a test email to a wrong address, and it didn't come through.
I went and looked at the web interface for my L3 account: there it was, it just wasn't auto-forwarding. Hmm. That's probably the bloody stupid can't-see-emails-that-you-sent-in-gmail thing, we decided. So, I now have an extra forward on my L3 account, which sends the emails to an internet-fairy.org account, which then autoforwards to my main gmail account.
I think it should work.
Now, if I could just figure out some way to filter them to a different folder. Hmm. Seems silly that you can't put a [thingie] in the subject line automatically when you autoforward an email.
Edit: Inevitably, I spoke too soon: Mike is still getting at least some of the mis-addressed emails, and I'm not getting some others of them. Sigh. This May Not Work.
Edit: And, I've just realised, my getting the mis-addressed emails doesn't actually help, because it just means that I get them if they worked, because I get All The Email, and I get them if they didn't, because they didn't. Except when I don't, in the latter case, but that's not helpful, really. Have to try a different approach.
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It turns out that I can email X's loncon3.org address, and Division A, but I can't email Y, or Division B. I can email Division C, but only on two out of three occasions.
When the emails don't go through, they don't bounce. They go to the catch-all address that receives emails to non-existent addresses at the domain. That's annoying but, on the plus side, that address is the next laptop over on the coffee table, so I did at least find out (when Mike had finished mowing the lawn).
The best solution that we could think of was for Mike to change that address to be me, and then I could also forward any occasional mis-addressed emails as well.
Then we sent a test email to a wrong address, and it didn't come through.
I went and looked at the web interface for my L3 account: there it was, it just wasn't auto-forwarding. Hmm. That's probably the bloody stupid can't-see-emails-that-you-sent-in-gmail thing, we decided. So, I now have an extra forward on my L3 account, which sends the emails to an internet-fairy.org account, which then autoforwards to my main gmail account.
I think it should work.
Now, if I could just figure out some way to filter them to a different folder. Hmm. Seems silly that you can't put a [thingie] in the subject line automatically when you autoforward an email.
Edit: Inevitably, I spoke too soon: Mike is still getting at least some of the mis-addressed emails, and I'm not getting some others of them. Sigh. This May Not Work.
Edit: And, I've just realised, my getting the mis-addressed emails doesn't actually help, because it just means that I get them if they worked, because I get All The Email, and I get them if they didn't, because they didn't. Except when I don't, in the latter case, but that's not helpful, really. Have to try a different approach.
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