There is no deliberate connection between the authentication method and
automatic-bcc... but bugs make fools of us all.

Are all of your tests using the same user?  If you can send me details
off-list, I can investigate further.

Brandon

On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 11:58 PM Kostya Vasilyev via mailop <
mailop@mailop.org> wrote:

> Well no, this one is different.
>
> It depends on whether the mail app uses OAUTH2 and on how recently this
> app was registered on Google Cloud.
>
> When such mail app is detected, Gmail will not automatically file messages
> submitted via SMTP into the Sent folder, as it's done for decades.
>
> This must be a deliberate change. Unfortunately as a side effect of this
> change, messages to self are silently dropped.
>
> Still hoping to get the attention of someone from Google, anyone out here?
>
> --
> Kostya Vasilyev
> k...@fastmail.com
>
> On Sat, Oct 16, 2021, at 10:48 PM, Jarland Donnell via mailop wrote:
> > I've had customers repeatedly approach me about a similar issue and I
> > ended up writing this in mass response:
> >
> https://mxroute.com/docs/im-forwarding-or-retrieving-email-to-at-gmail-and-when-i-send-a-test-email-from-the-same-address-that-will-ultimately-be-receiving-it-it-doesnt-work/
> >
> > I could probably argue that there's a logical case for not duplicating
> > an email that someone sent to themselves by displaying it in two folders
> > by default. I don't see people email themselves very often for any
> > purpose other than testing.
> >
> > On 2021-10-16 12:57, Kostya Vasilyev via mailop wrote:
> >> Anyone from Google here?
> >>
> >> I'm seeing a bug where messages sent to same Gmail account (same from
> >> and to @gmail.com address) are accepted by smtp.gmail.com but are
> >> never delivered, dropped instead.
> >>
> >> This happens if:
> >>
> >> - Messages are sent using a mail app using IMAP / SMTP
> >> - Mail app uses OAUTH2 for authentication
> >> - Mail app was created / registered on Google Cloud some time inside
> >> the last two years
> >> - The user saves the message to Drafts before sending
> >>
> >> Apps using "less secure" (login / password) auth are not affected.
> >> Apps using OAUTH2 but registered a long(er) time ago are not affected.
> >>
> >> So basically any new mail app that tries to follow Google's
> >> recommended OAUTH2 will be seen by users as broken (can't send
> >> messages to yourself, which people do).
> >>
> >> Feel free to contact me directly for more info.
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