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Gmail tagging Google Reader mail as spam

March 15th, 2009

I find it quite funny that Gmail seemed to tag mail from Google Reader as spam. To be exact, it tagged a news item I sent to myself using the [x] Send me a copy of this e-mail feature. I don’t think this is the first time Gmail has been marking mail from other Google services as spam, so I guess they really don’t exclude their own services :-)

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Backing up Gmail on Debian using isync

August 11th, 2008

This is a somewhat Debian-specific howto for backing up Gmail on Debian using isync, adapted from rectalogic.com’s Automated gmail backup via IMAP article that was directed at Mac OS X users.

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Encrypted system logs to gmail using logcheck/procmail/gpg

June 14th, 2008

It’s always a good idea to keep external system logs in case something happens to your server, for example, if it gets rooted. Privacy issues are a good reason to keep the logs encrypted. This is a quick look at how to send system logs hourly to Gmail (or some other external mail) from a Debian server. It also assumes quite a bit of knowledge from the reader, sorry for that ;-)

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Gmail not forwarding all mail… yes it is

June 1st, 2008

It seems Gmail’s forwarding feature does not really forward all mail (true for Apps at least). When you select “Settings->Forwarding and POP/IMAP->Forward a copy of incoming mail to” and set an e-mail there, only the e-mails sent to your literal address (“user@somewhere”) are forwarded. E-mails that were already forwarded to that address or sent with the ‘+’ suffix (eg. “user+tag@somewhere”) are *not* forwarded. You can’t even use filters to achieve this.

This sucks, because when using Apps and regular gmail account you most likely would want to forward a couple of aliases (eg. webmaster) to the main account@domain and then all coming to that to regular gmail. And you can’t use the ‘+’ suffix for the real address. :(

Update: Okay, I was too hasty. Looks like the above holds true only for when you send e-mail from your regular gmail account to the Apps one. When sent externally, all mail seems to be forwarded regardless of whether ‘+’ suffix is used or whether it’s sent to the actual account (“user+tag”, “webmaster+tag”, etc. are forwarded).

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