Re: [Gmail-Users] Re: Give me a warning when I sending a email to myself.

[Heather Liebensohn]

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 <pil...@gmail.com> 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.

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Marko

[Marko Vukovic]

Hi Jo

I'm not seeing this behaviour. If I reply a message that I have sent, it has the original recipient in the new message, not my address.

On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Jo <jora...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi there,

often I want to add details to an email that I have send to someone. I hit reply on my own email, write whatever I need to add and send it. The problem is that many time it just send just to me without me knowing about that fact. Is there a way to give me a warning when I send to reply to an email to myself?

Jo

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Marko

[Andy]

I don't see that behavior either. I frequently "reply" to my own
emails (to someone else), and Gmail has always figured out that I
meant for the reply to go to the other people.

However, even if it does what you say, I'd like to suggest that you
can't save people from themselves. If you wrote an email and never
bothered to check whom you were sending it to, I'll offer that it is
your own mistake for not checking. Logic says that the reply ought to
go back to you; the way Gmail behaves (for me) is a bit of an
exception.

Anyway, replying to yourself and having the reply go to yourself (if
that's what Gmail did), is a perfectly valid action and I don't see
why Gmail should warn you about it. I occasionally send emails to
myself as reminders. I even reply to them (to myself) when I need to
add more.

But if you want a new feature added to Gmail, you need to suggest it
to Google. This forum is not the place to do that. This email list
is a group of Gmail users like yourself, and none of us have the power
to change Gmail.

Perhaps there is a way to do it with a Filter? If you make a Filter
with both "from:me" and "to:me", and have it do something like "Send a
canned response" (which I think is a Gmail Lab and needs to be enabled
first), that might be enough of a reminder to yourself. I'm not sure
if this works as I haven't tried it.

Andy

[Sean Murphy]

    I have seen it, but only when replying to someone whose email address I have added the ability to "send as" to my account (with her permission). There is a "Treat as an alias" setting in the account settings that turned this behavior off.

[Kenneth Ayers]

Yes, usually replying to your own email should mean that the reply gets sent back to you.  If you want it sent out to the original recipients, you should select reply to all.  But I agree that in my experience Gmail tries to save you from yourself by directing reply to the original recipient instead of to yourself.

Kenneth

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[Marko Vukovic]

You would think that Kenneth but I find that Thunderbird on my desktop and Mail on my iPhone behave the same as Gmail.

Jo, you could try enable the lab that sets the 'Reply All' button as default. 

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[JimMcFu]

Hi there.
I'm 2.5 years to late to join this discussion but in the last 4 weeks gmail has started behaving for me in exactly the way Jo decribed. Previously I'd been aware that when I replied to an email in a thread of emails (and I'm just talking about between myself and one intended recipient), irrespective of  whose email was last in the rank, it always went to the other party. Now, for reasons I don't understand, if my email was the last in the thread and I hit reply it theoretically sends to me and not the other party. I say 'theoretically' because I get no warning in terms of the new message turning up as unread in my inbox. Any ideas?

Jim

[Marko Vukovic]

Remind us, what is the problem?

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[Nicolaas Thiemen Francken]

On Wednesday, 25 February 2015 07:46:37 UTC+13, JimMcFu wrote:

Hi there.
I'm 2.5 years to late to join this discussion but in the last 4 weeks gmail has started behaving for me in exactly the way Jo decribed. Previously I'd been aware that when I replied to an email in a thread of emails (and I'm just talking about between myself and one intended recipient), irrespective of  whose email was last in the rank, it always went to the other party. Now, for reasons I don't understand, if my email was the last in the thread and I hit reply it theoretically sends to me and not the other party. I say 'theoretically' because I get no warning in terms of the new message turning up as unread in my inbox. Any ideas?

I have the same problems - would love to know about a fix! 

[Elizabeth]

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.  Awkward.  :(  

[Marko Vukovic]

On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 9:47 PM, Elizabeth <pil...@gmail.com> 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.

[JimMcFu]

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:

[J-F Demore]

Same!

Please share any solutions!

[J-F Demore]

Same with me...  Had never had this issue until recently, now it drives me crazy...  I wonder why I never hear back from someone, go to follow-up on the email only to realize that it was sent to me, and not to the intended recipient, while I do not get a notice of the fact.  

Any progress on resolving this issue?

To be clear, this occurs when I hit reply on an email thread where I was the last to contribute.

Best regards,

On Tuesday, March 31, 2015 at 1:58:33 PM UTC-4, JimMcFu wrote:

[Keith Bainbridge]

Have you considered the option setting something like 'Shot reply to group'?

Keith Bainbridge

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keithrb...@gmail.com

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