Several people seem to have a big problem with *why* anyone would want to BCC themselves and have the BCCed messgae stored in their 'inbox' rather than in their 'sent' folder. These are the two reasons why *I* want to be able to do this.
1. I would like my replies to messages to be part of the conversation thread: I want to be able to look at a threaded message and not only see whether I sent a reply, but also see what I said. If the messages are split between 2 different folders (labels) then the messages are combined in a single thread. 2. I want to be certain that my messages have actually got out 'into the ether'. When at work, I have to send messages through my work smtp server, and the only way I know that any email I have sent has actually left the local work network is if I BCC myself. If a message returns to me through BCC, then I know it has also been delivered to the main recipient's system (even if not to the recipients mailbox). Having a copy of my message simply copied to 'sent' does not prove the message has been successfully sent. As it is, I find that many of my BCCed messages to myself actually end up in 'Bin', presumably because Gmail realise it's a duplicate (with the copy in 'sent' and so deletes the additional one! On Thursday, 23 May 2013 03:16:06 UTC+1, Frank St. Claire wrote: > > Every reply (most of which seem to come from "Zac") dance around the > problem, which is pretty simple: > > *1. You want to have a copy of each email you send sent to yourself as if > you had manually listed yourself as a bcc recipient -- which is gets very > old to do manually after you've done it for awhile.* > 2. While almost every email service (e.g., Mozilla Thunderbird with IMAP > settings) provides such an option, Gmail apparently does not -- despite > years of everyone's pleas. > 3. *You don't want to use conversation mode* -- which some find > distracting AND > 4. *You don't want to have to search your "sent" folder for a copy of > your own email sent to others* (see item 1 above). > > and for clarification, this question is NOT: > > 1. related to CRM (I don't care whatever that is and don't want to know) or > 2. a philosophical issue. > > and finally: > > 1. Does Google listen to their users or has it turned a deaf ear to a > legitimate multi-year request? > 2. BTW, we accepted Google's limitation of two levels of "nesting" of mail > folders with its multiple "labels" -- which is probably due to a limit in > Gmail's design architecture, but > 3. If this current issue (i.e., *see item 1 in the first paragraph* if > you forgot to read it there or didn't fully comprehend the simple scope of > this query) is a design issue here, either: > a. fix it or > b. "cowboy-up" to the problem -- instead of using what appear to be > stalking horse apologists in this user group to qualm the incessantly > beating drums of discontent from some of your most ardent supporters over > this simple question. > > Thanks in advance to anyone who has the courage and intelligence to > address this issue directly as presented above (i.e., *see item 1 in the > first paragraph* above if you have not done so by now) without any of the > tangential responses evidenced by this multi-year thread to date. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
