Gmail Is Dumb

Gmail has made my life painful today and I thought that I would share.

Gmail is kinda cool, in that they allow you to use their SMTP servers to send outgoing mail and it even supports encryption so I don't have to worry about the office admins reading my mail or anything. However, what they fail to mention (or if they did, I missed it) is that it re-writes all of your mail headers so that it's no longer using the original FROM: address.

So in other words, instead of getting mail from my usual @danielquinn.org address, people were receiving mail from my @gmail.com address and replying to that... so I've been getting mail for months and not knowing it 'cause I don't check gmail. I've since fixed the problem (there's a setting buried deep in their options pages.) so it shouldn't be a problem anymore.

So for those of you who were wondering why I didn't respond to a letter or two, that's why. Sorry about that, but I blame Google.