Hi,
I’ve posted already in a separate thread that I can’t use Evolution as a mail client to access my gmail account to send or receive email. But there is also a second, different problem that I don’t know how to resolve. This may not be the correct sub-forum to post in for this question, but I have to start somewhere and I really don’t know which is the correct forum. So if I’m wrong, direct me where to post and I will do so!
Since I can’t use my email client Evolution to post to the opensuse@opensuse.org mailing list, I used my browser to log in to gmail. I composed some emails describing the issue I am trying to resolve with the mail client, and sent them to the mailing list. But my emails to the mailing list are being rejected and sent back to me. Here is the reason given:
Hi, this is the Mlmmj program managing the <opensuse@opensuse.org> mailing
list.
The message from <munguanaweza@gmail.com> with subject “Evolution won’t
connect to gmail” was unable to be delivered to the list because of an
access rule set up by the list administrator.
I’m not sure why I am getting this response from the mailing list. The only thing that I could think was that maybe the gmail website sends emails in html instead of plain text, but I have no indication that this is so. I looked through the gmail settings and found no setting to send mail using either plain text or html.
Anyone have an idea what is happening regarding these emails being rejected by the mailing list?
Thanks
Make sure that you are sending mail as plain text, not as HTML. I think they reject HTML emails.
On Sun, 19 May 2019 04:36:03 +0000, nrickert wrote:
> Make sure that you are sending mail as plain text, not as HTML. I think
> they reject HTML emails.
They do. It has to be plain text.
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Take a very careful look at the services provided by your Internet Service Provider (ISP).
- More than a few ISPs offer e-Mail accounts (my ISP allows that I can setup multiple e-Mail accounts – up to a 100 … ) as part of the monthly bill you pay for the Internet services they provide for your use.
If that’s the case then, setup an e-Mail account (to mirror your Gmail account) with your ISP and then, setup your GMail to automatically forward everything to the ISP account you’ve setup to receive the incoming GMail e-Mail traffic.
- Then, setup Evolution to use the ISP account – access via IMAP or POP3 to suit your personal taste …
[HR][/HR]If you have an Android mobile telephone, then by all means use that device to send and receive e-Mails via Gmail – Google knows an awful amount about your mobile telephone habits anyway, as does the mobile telephone service provider …
- Forwarding the incoming e-Mail traffic received via Gmail to your ISP’s services, removes the issues non-Google e-Mail clients have with direct Gmail account access and, the need to use a “not really so comfortable” Web-Browser interface …
Hi,
I resolved the issue regarding TLS sign-in to my gmail account, and this can be referenced in another thread. Since I can use Evolution again, I can connect with the mailiing list as normal, as it is setup to send to the mailing list in plain text. So it seems likely that the message composer in the gmail website sent my messages to the mailing list in html, as I suspected.
I haven’t found a way to switch the gmail website message composer to plain text. I know that everyone reading this thread will be waiting to find out how to do that, so they won’t be stuck in a bind like I was. So I promise that someday, I may try to work that out. When I get some more free time, and can work on it, I’ll have to get on to resolving that. One of these days. Yep.
I got curious and went back onto the gmail website. I opened the composer, and found that there is an icon for configuring the composer on the bottom right. Clicking on the icon opened up a menu list, and one of the selections was Plain Text.
What can I say? It was late and I was tired when I tried it the other night. Anyway, for anyone who has been left wondering, the mystery is now solved.