# How to stop the ML sending my mails back to me? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [May 11, 2007, 10:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-stop-the-ml-sending-my-mails-back-to-me/103888 "2007-05-11T10:39:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![fcruxen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/ecae2f/32.png) [@fcruxen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/fcruxen)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2007, 10:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-stop-the-ml-sending-my-mails-back-to-me/103888/1 "2007-05-11T10:39:40Z")
I don’t want to receive the messages I send, it screws my Gmail display. I have searched everywhere for a way to do that with no luck. I even tried to send a message to ruby-talk-ctl with the #msg command, but I got no reply. Any hints? ---
**Author:** ![fcruxen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/ecae2f/32.png) [@fcruxen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/fcruxen)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2007, 10:49am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-stop-the-ml-sending-my-mails-back-to-me/103888/2 "2007-05-11T10:49:52Z")
On 11 May 2007, at 10:38, Felipe C. wrote: > Felipe C. You could mark yourself as spam 😉 ---
**Author:** ![fcruxen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/ecae2f/32.png) [@fcruxen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/fcruxen)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2007, 5:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-stop-the-ml-sending-my-mails-back-to-me/103888/3 "2007-05-11T17:12:44Z")
On 5/11/07, Bill G. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > that, you only saw the message you sent. When you see the second > copy, it’s the copy from the list - so it confirms that it actually > made it to the list. You know, it annoyed me at first until I recognized it as a ping-back kind of feature. Then it still annoyed me, but it at least had a purpose. This has come up several times before, there are filter hacks but none are satisfactory so far. The best I had would remove both of my mails, which got really annoying. Other (sane) filter hacks are welcome, as it’d be nice to stick it on a wiki page or blog entry so we can point people at it. ---
**Author:** ![fcruxen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/ecae2f/32.png) [@fcruxen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/fcruxen)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2007, 5:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-stop-the-ml-sending-my-mails-back-to-me/103888/4 "2007-05-11T17:02:43Z")
On 5/11/07, Felipe C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > I don’t want to receive the messages I send, it screws my Gmail display. > > I have searched everywhere for a way to do that with no luck. I even > tried to send a message to ruby-talk-ctl with the #msg command, but I > got no reply. > > Any hints? It’s actually somewhat of a ‘feature’ of gmail. Before they added that, you only saw the message you sent. When you see the second copy, it’s the copy from the list - so it confirms that it actually made it to the list. Some find it annoying, I find it helpful. I just did a quick scan of the Gmail options, and I don’t see any way to turn it off. ---
**Author:** ![fcruxen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/ecae2f/32.png) [@fcruxen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/fcruxen)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2007, 8:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-stop-the-ml-sending-my-mails-back-to-me/103888/5 "2007-05-11T20:12:11Z")
dear sender, i´m out of the office until may 29th. your email will not be forwarded. for urgent stuff please contact removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid kind regards, alexander ---
**Author:** ![fcruxen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/ecae2f/32.png) [@fcruxen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/fcruxen)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2007, 7:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-stop-the-ml-sending-my-mails-back-to-me/103888/6 "2007-05-11T19:52:09Z")
On 5/11/07, Bill G. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > It’s actually somewhat of a ‘feature’ of gmail. None of the other 7 lists I’m subscribed to using Gmail exhibit this behavior. ---
**Author:** ![fcruxen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/ecae2f/32.png) [@fcruxen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/fcruxen)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2007, 9:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-stop-the-ml-sending-my-mails-back-to-me/103888/7 "2007-05-11T21:38:20Z")
On 5/11/07, Greg D. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > On 5/11/07, Bill G. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > It’s actually somewhat of a ‘feature’ of gmail. > > None of the other 7 lists I’m subscribed to using Gmail exhibit this behavior. Not sure how to answer that one, but it seems it may have to do with the list setup. That, or the settings you used when you subscribed. I’m fairly certain that it happens on all of the lists I’m on, or at least most of them. Then again, I’m not really all that focused on it. ---
**Author:** ![fcruxen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/ecae2f/32.png) [@fcruxen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/fcruxen)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2007, 12:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-stop-the-ml-sending-my-mails-back-to-me/103888/8 "2007-05-12T00:25:36Z")
> Not sure how to answer that one, but it seems it may have to > do with the list setup. That, or the settings you used when > you subscribed. > I’m fairly certain that it happens on all of the lists I’m > on, or at least most of them. Then again, I’m not really all > that focused on it. Most ML software has an option to not send a message that you sent to you - mailman has a nodupes option, etc. Browsing through the command help just now, I didn’t find an equivalent for whatever software handles the backend for ruby-talk, so I’d say you’re probably stuck there. As for a gmail filter (or any other filter), you might try looking for messages that were sent to the ruby-talk list and by you, then drop those in the trash. I’m not a gmail user on a regular basis, so I have not tested and the usual disclaimers apply 😉 -Doug ---
**Author:** ![fcruxen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/ecae2f/32.png) [@fcruxen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/fcruxen)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 3:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-stop-the-ml-sending-my-mails-back-to-me/103888/9 "2007-05-18T15:00:18Z")
On 5/12/07, Doug P. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Browsing through the command help just now, I didn’t find an equivalent > for whatever software handles the backend for ruby-talk, so I’d say > you’re probably stuck there. > > As for a gmail filter (or any other filter), you might try looking for > messages that were sent to the ruby-talk list and by you, then drop > those in the trash. I’m not a gmail user on a regular basis, so I have > not tested and the usual disclaimers apply 😉 Yeah, that’s what I thought. I have seen that mailman has that option, so I can configure it. But not with this ML manager. I like the ping back option, in fact I wanted to enable it in my mailman subscriptions, but not after I saw how Gmail handles it. I see two emails, one appears as a reply of the one before, and all the text is compressed in a kind of ugly way. Unfortunately my Gmail requests for features seem to always go to the trash. Hopefully someone can implement this option in the ruby-talk ML manager.