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Is there a way I can get previous messages from a mailing list into my mailbox?

I've just joined a certain mailing list. The list has a web archive, which is nice, but I would like to have past messages from that list - all of them or a just a few months back - in my own mailbox, ...
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Difficulty with listserv how is it suppose to work

Hello I subscribe to a mailing list but I don't see any posts from anyone else. All that I am able to do is post to the group. What am I doing wrong how is this supposed to work?
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My emails to mailing list go missing in Thunderbird

Thunderbird 91.9.1 When I send an email to mailing list such as gnucash-user or other similar mailing lists, my submissions go missing. This happens at both times when I start a new thread or respond ...
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How to reply to Python's GNU mailman 3 mailing list

Sometimes I find myself trying to reply to Python's mailing list, but continuously failing. Python's GNU Mailman 2 did not have these issues while Mailman 3 does. There are some conventions Python ...
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How to get Email List with each of its user name?

I'm trying to create a report in a form of email list with its user name. The problem is that each user can change their own user name to be different from the one I gave. The users mostly use Ms. ...
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Why email to me & list doesn't show up twice?

Let's say I've joined [email protected]. My friend sends an email To me and she also CC's [email protected]. I would naively expect the email to show up twice in my ...
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How do I easily format replies to mailing lists from Outlook?

I occasionally participate in mailing list conversations such as the cygwin list. When I get a reply, I see that lines have a varied number of '>' characters prepended: > > I see a problem ...
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Name that appears in 'From' in a Mailing List

I've subscribed a mailing list via mailman. I've replied to a message using Thunderbird, where I've set a name in the settings of the mail I've used to reply. In mailman I've filled the field Your ...
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How to follow only my threads on a mailing list?

A lot of projects have a large volume of posts and replies on their mailing lists, even on their user lists which don't include posts targeting developers. It's sometimes necessary to post an issue ...
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How to check if a person belongs to the receiving list of an email in Outlook?

Occasionally I need to check if some person receives a specific email or not, or why that email was sent to some people (to remove them from that mail group), but there are a lot of mailing lists in ...
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How to reply to a thread in a mailing list which is not in my Inbox

I have subscribed to a mailing list. Then I have seen a thread where I can add a possibly useful post. How can I add to that thread? If I had that email in my Inbox, I could reply to it. PS: I ...
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how to connect check_sender_access tables to individual emails in postfix

My problem is we have internal email lists managed in postfix and they are open to all internal clients, ie anyone can send to the all@ list, and this has become a problem. I have looked at the ...
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newsletter mailservers - how to avoid blocklists?

I am working for a small company and we are sending out newsletter-emails to our customers like every 3 months. That are about 2000 emails every time. we are using our own (old access & outlook) ...
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How can I avoid mailman's list membership reminders?

I'm subscribed to several mailing lists administered by 'mailman'. Once every month I get a message from [email protected] entitled [email protected] mailing list reminder I'd ...
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GPG keys for mailinglists

There are two mailing-lists (e.g. [email protected] and [email protected]) for which I'd like to generate GPG keys and send the respective private keys to the members of the lists, so mails to the lists can ...
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Mailman installation username and password?

First, I've installed lasted version of Iredmail on Ubuntu 14.04 then installed mailman. After installation, I have opened mailman URL but It prompted me a dialogue to enter username and password I'...
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Listserv strips recipient list, how do I turn that off?

our university club has a few mailing lists provided by the university, and recently they migrated to LISTSERV. In general I like the interface and functionality, but there's a weird feature/bug(?) ...
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In thunderbird: mailing list with CC

I have two sets of addressees that I send many emails to; one set is only CC'ed. What would be an efficient way to do it? I could set two mailing lists: one for the regular addressees and the other of ...
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Move existing articles to another group in Gnus

I set up nnmail-split-methods to separate mail coming from my mailing list from anything else: (setq nnmail-split-methods '(("vladimir.lenin" "From:.*vladimir\.lenin") ("...
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What are the benefits of using mail distribution services?

I want to setup a small mailing list (about 100 emails) and send mails about 1 time per 1-2 weeks. Why would I want to use a professional service for this, such as MailChimp or Mad Mimi, instead of ...
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Does outlook ever convert email bodies to attachments?

I subscribe to the "Quickfix-users" mailing list. This mailing list has the option to email subscribers each conversation. Most of the time what outlook shows me is an empty email with the actual ...
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Thunderbird: export a mailing list thread to HTML or plain text

Howto export a mailing list thread to HTML or plain text. Thread have 40+ mails. I use OS X if that matters. export should be well formatted and readable
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How do I set up a mailing list for over 2000 people? [closed]

I manage IT for a large organization with over 2000 people. The administration would like to send an email (often with up to 5 word document attachments) about once per week. They also want to ...
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Manage email subscriptions lists

I am after a way to manage email subscriptions to multiple people. I would like to have a generic [email protected] Add to that distribution group. People who are part of that distro group ...
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How to gather statistics and extract data from an email list discussion system?

My company is using emails lists to discuss topics in a very Stack Exchange way. As you could easily guess, we are missing some key features like: votes and statistics. So, I'm looking for a way for ...
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Will Outlook out-of-office reply go to mailing lists?

I subscribe to mailing lists, and have rules that route them to folders under my inbox. Will setting up an out-of-office auto-reply send a message to the public list for every incoming message?
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How to move mailing list mails into correct thread?

I'm subscribed to some mailing lists and every day people reply to a wrong mail (or they don't reply at all), so that their mail lands in the wrong (or a new) thread. I set the mail display in "View →...
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Create AddressBook group without creating individual contacts

Is there a way to create a mailing list for AddressBook.app and/or Mail.app without individually creating contacts for each person on the list? Specifically, I have an e-mail addressed to each ...
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How can I create a mailing list for internal discussion in my firm

How can I create a mailing list for internal discussion in my firm? Like we have the SAS mailing list, can we have a SAS mailing list for my SAS discussions inside my firm itself?
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Set up a mailing list with NNTP access

I'd like to communicate with some friends via email. Currently, I just have a group in my Thunderbird address book and I just send emails to the whole list. It is cumbersome for them to answer to ...
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Correct format for Mailing lists?

I came across this today lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/rtmpdump/2012-February/001827.html This person has used HTML email instead of plain text. I put this question up so that people posting on ...
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What's the difference between a distribution list and a listserv? [closed]

We have both where I work, and often times people are unsure which is appropriate for what. So my question is, what are the key differences between an email distribution list and a listserv?
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How to save and recover prior posts on a mailing list to Thunderbird inbox?

I'm participating in a mailing list handled by Mailman. As I entered it in, let's say, 20/02, I don't have on my inbox emails sent until 19/02. This mailing list has an archive with many and many ...
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Looking for a free bulk/mass mailing software that can import addresses from csv [closed]

Questions says it all really - I have a list of around 9000 email addresses that I'd like to mail a (html) newsletter to. I use Outlook 2007 at the moment, and it doesn't really handle this task very ...
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How do I set up an email discussion group?

For a client we want to set up a email discussion list so users can email comments to a central address, but can also see each other's comments, etc. Our users are familiar with email but sending them ...
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Decompressing these .gz files gives strange/unexpected results, can you get it working?

I have a collection of mailing list archive files all gzip'd, they're in a nested directory structure that starts with what appears to be a blank folder/jargon name. The files are here: http://lists....
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How to display a mailbox as browsable website?

We have a company-wide mailing list that aggregates all its messages in one IMAP/POP3 mailbox. Now we would like to make the contents of this mailbox browsable as an internal website. The goal is to ...
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best way to import mailing list archives

I tried reading mailing lists in gnus in emacs, but emacs stops responding with the slow nntp servers downloads. nabble, gmane etc are also kind of slow. So I thought about download the gzipped ...
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Free SMTP Server for Windows Server 2003

i am looking to have an SMTP server, for Windows 2003, that: is easily configurable is free allows me to send newsletters to hundreds of people at a time has a good statistics module (bounces, hard ...
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separate mailing lists from Inbox

I've tried to subscribe to some mailing lists, but it isn't very comfortable to mix messages from there with other messages in my inbox. I always end up just muting messages from lists because they ...
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About mailing list software or something like that

Is there any mailing list or mailing software that could handle this kind scenario: If I join to mailing list at week 4, mailing system starts sending me emails starting from number 1. Next week, on ...
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Easiest way to print hundreds of same letter with different addresses

There is a long list of names and addresses in CSV format (could be converted to a different). I need to print a hundred of letters with some formatting like: %address% Dear %name%, Blah-blah-blah ...
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How do you create a mailing list with Lotus Notes?

I have a list of users of an application stored in an SQL database. I'd like to be able to email these people with useful information. Two parts to the question. How do I send queries to an SQL ...
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How to remove Reply List option in Thunderbird 3?

I receive email as part of a mailing list that also CC's other people. T-Bird defaults the toolbar button to Reply List instead of Reply All, which strips away the CC's. That's bad, because they're ...
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How to stop receiving multiple copies of a mailing list email in Outlook

My company has various internal mailing lists, I am a member of various ones. If I receive a message addressed to two (or more!) groups of which I am a member, I receive two copies of the message. Is ...
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