[mdlug] Email Problem

[Robert Jim Fulner]

OK,

So this isn't directly a GNU/Linux question, but installing a distribution
of GNU/Linux meant for old hardware may be my friend's only solution.

I have a friend of mine who uses only his AT&T email account. (I tried to
get him to switch a while back, but you know how some folks get attached to
their email address). Even though he pays AT&T for his Internet connection,
he hasn't been able to check his email at home for a long time. He has
always used the AT&T Yahoo! webmail interface to to check his email He has
an old machine that is still running Windows 98. A while back the web
interface stopped working due to the hardware/software limitations (I get
the same thing when I try to check my AT&T yahoo account on my OLPC XO
machine). As such for the last year or more he's being going to the library
twice a week to check his email.

Well that's bad enough, but now when he sends email from his AT&T Account
it shows a different name as the sender and a reply to address that I don't
recognize.

I always make sure I reply using his @att.net email address, and he seems
to get those without any difficulty, but I've always wondered what others
get. (Every time I try to mention it he says "well its good enough").

But just to see I went a head and sent him an email from another account of
mine, a "gmail Business account" to the Reply to address so that I could
see if he actually gets it including a requested read receipt .

When I sent the message from my business account, I got the below message
(identically to the one I sent) in my regular Gmail account. Granted it had
the pd3830 label on it, making me think it was actually sent to that
account (i have my Gmail set to important those messages via POP) but when
I log into the pd3830 gmail web interface this message is not show in in
the INBOX while all of the others I have received in my gmail are.

I'm not even sure what is going on here. If the Reply-to message included
is somehow forwarding to the original email address that message was sent
to, or what's going on. I'm so lost I'm not even sure what to google for. I
tried specifically looking for the name and the reply-to address on his
email to me to see if someone had had this exact problem without much luck
in my search.

Any insight anyone can give as to why this would happen, what is happenign,
or what the solution is (right now I'm leanign towards installing DSL or
Wary Puppy on his old machine and setting up their email client to check
his AT&T mail, but weitehr I can convience him to try such is debatable,
and I'm not sure that would even fix it, if its a problem with the AT&T
server. (When he has called AT&T  about other email problems (like the fact
that previously it was added a signature to "Please send your email and
password to address something at something.com" they just told him that
Windows 98 is no longer supporter and go pleasure one's self).

--
Jim Fulner
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and whenever possible Free Beer
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: PD 3830 <pd3830 at mikofc.org>
Date: Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 10:51 AM
Subject: Email format does not look correct
To: chollianteam at yahoo.co.kr


Jim,

When you send an email it does not look correct.

I wanted to know if you were aware that when you reply to an email I (and
presumablly when you send new email) that it states its coming not from Jim
Young, but from Yenobae Chung. And that by default it has it reply to the
email I'm sending this to, <chollianteam at yahoo.co.kr>, which is a Yahoo!
account in Korea. Whenever I reply to you I always switch the reply back to
misterjim8 at att.net, but most folks won't do that, so if you dont' get this
that can't be helping your chances of getting a job.

fromChung, Yeonbae misterjim8 at att.net reply-tochollianteam at yahoo.co.kr
I'm sending this from my Knight of Columbus account, instead of my gmail
account I normally use, because it has the option for a "read receipt" so I
can know immediately when this is read, and then verify if that's correct.

If you're not getting this, you'll need to change it, if  you are getting
it, I still recommend you change it. If you can't figure out how to, I can
bring my laptop with and I can help you adjust your email settings on
Saturday at the party, or I can come over Thursday night. Also previously
you had mentioned that your PC can't check AT&T's webmail any longer due to
their new webmail interface giving your hardware limitations. If you are
still paying AT&T monthly for your internet, and wish to be able to check
your email at home, I can help you configure a different email client,
software that will allow you to check your AT&T email account without
having to use their web mail interface, like Thunderbird 2.

--
VIVAT JESUS!

Jim Fulner
Program Director
Knights of Columbus
Queen of the Holy Rosary Council #3830
2299 12 Mile RD.
Berkley, MI 48072
248-765-7458 (cell)
http://kofc3830.com/


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