cc'ng to Yourself as Poor Man's way of FCC'ng

[Tom Orent]

So I'm told Thunderbird doesn't yet have a FCC (file copy to) which
allows us to automatically assign a folder into which a file copy is
placed upon sending an email.

This was a CRITICAL feature for me in the old Eudora, allowing me to
find things within the right folders down the road.

A cumbersome (but effective) way for me to do this WAS (until this
morning!) to BCC myself, then when that copy came in seconds later,
simply file it where I would have assigned the FCC.

HELP? Starting this morning when sending a copy to myself, no messages
say there was any trouble sending, BUT, the BCC (even CC) i'm sending
to myself is no longer appearing in my in box (or spam or junk). I've
changed NOTHING since last night. Anyone have any idea why this
occurs? (and how to fix?)

I've tested going to my Earthlink web mail, and to my Comcast and
Gmail Web Mails, and am ABLE to send an email to my Gmail
(Thunderbird) account and get it in Thunderbird no problem.

thanks,
tom

[John H Meyers]

On Sun, 06 Dec 2009 10:59:08 -0600, Tom Orent wrote:

> Starting this morning when sending a copy to myself,
> no messages say there was any trouble sending,
> BUT, the BCC (even CC) i'm sending to myself
> is no longer appearing in my in box (or spam or junk).
> I've changed NOTHING since last night.
> Anyone have any idea why this occurs? (and how to fix?)

Yesterday there was no rain, and today there is,
even though I have changed _nothing_ from my side :)

Everything is simple and logical.

Ensure that a message was actually sent, and that
it actually has your correct destination address.

Then look to see whether your "webmail" says
that it has ever arrived at your ISP
(also check for spam there, if they have a quarantine,
but if they discard suspected spam without a trace,
then it could have been incinerated at that point,
or fell off the back of a truck when their own server
crashed -- stuff can happen!)

Then make sure you have done an incoming mail check,
from the correct account, and have accounted for
any incoming filtering.

If you are receiving this mail in more than one email client,
make sure that "leave on server" (on every client)
permits multiple downloading (for users of Gmail via POP,
multiple downloading is not possible,
except when using "recent mode" -- see Gmail help info).

For good luck, when you send a Bcc, include both your Gmail address
and your ISP domain address -- arrival at either one will confirm
satisfactory processing up to storage on the SMTP server
which Eudora contacted when sending it,
followed by delivery to at least one of the destination domains.

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[John H Meyers]

Same question (and author) on Qualcomm forums:

http://eudorabb.qualcomm.com/showthread.php?t=14531

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