This happens to me two but only in Internet Explorer never in Firefox. I 
have two gmail accounts and one open in each browser. It drives me nuts and 
happens all the freaking time.

On Tuesday, March 31, 2015 at 1:58:33 PM UTC-4, JimMcFu wrote:
>
> Hi again. Just done some some further trialling that suggests it is not an 
> issue with how mailing lists are set up. My wife and I have our own gmail 
> accounts on the same computer, and we just sent each other (no others 
> copied in) a series of emails. She was unable to accidentally send herself 
> an email when she replied to her own email in the thread, while mine 
> continued to exhibit the annoying behaviour that brought us to this thread. 
> The 'reply to all' as a default might solve the problem Marko but I can 
> already imagine it creating new issues. This issue started for me in 
> February this year, and had never been an issue in the many years previous.
>
> Cheers
>
> On Saturday, 28 March 2015 09:16:05 UTC+13, Marko V wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 9:47 PM, Elizabeth <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I have also just started experiencing this problem in the last few 
>>> weeks.  I do this all the time (reply to a thread when I was the last 
>>> person to contribute), and in the past Gmail always sent the mail to 
>>> whomever else was in thread, not to myself.  Now, if I was the last person 
>>> to contribute to a conversation and I hit reply (as a follow up or because 
>>> I forgot something, etc.) it replies ONLY to me.  This has caused some 
>>> fairly uncomfortable problems in which I was supposed to follow up with 
>>> someone, thought I did, but didn't realize until they nagged me that I 
>>> actually only replied to myself.
>>
>>
>> ​This always depends on how the particular mailing list is setup. Hitting 
>> reply to one's own mail on this list, for example, will reply to the group 
>> address. This is not always the case. You should always check before you 
>> hit the Send button.
>> As suggested before, enable the lab th​at makes 'Reply All' the default. 
>> You may also want to enable the 'Undo Send' lab, that will give you some 
>> seconds to cancel an email before it is actually sent.
>>
>> -- 
>> Marko
>>  
>

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