Re: [Gmail-Users] How to cc and bcc yourself in Gmail

[Zack (Doc)]

When composing a message click the bar where you add addresses, and click in the CC or BCC field and type your own e-mail.

Don't expect this to make the message show up in your inbox, GMail silently hides messages to you, from you.

The messages will still be in your mail, under the "sent mail" label.  You can get them from there and apply the inbox label, if you want them to show up there.

On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Dan Liscio <danl...@gmail.com> wrote:

I have tried a few things but no success anyone have any suggestions would appreciate

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[Andy]

What Zack said.

The reason why it seems like messages to yourself do not reach you, is
that Gmail sees it as a duplicate copy of the message you just sent,
which was saved by Gmail (in your Sent Mail label/folder). Gmail
always deletes duplicate messages.

Andy

[Kenneth Ayers]

It seems that Gmail deletes duplicate messages but to me "delete" isn't the right word for it.  If something's deleted, I'd like to be able to go to Trash and find it.  Gmail though just makes duplicate messages disappear as if they never existed. 

And considering that some of these duplicates are known to be different than the emails they allegedly duplicate, e.g., emailed posts submitted to mailing lists that have been edited by moderators and are, hence, different than the original, these emails that Gmail makes disappear are often emails that I'd like to have the option to see.

[Zack (Doc)]

Indeed, Groups are specifically the reason Google gives for this behavior: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6588?hl=en

I do not subscribe to, or participate in any groups that allow moderators this type of behavior (to change the content of what I send; either they let it through as I sent it, or reject it outright), so I don't have this worry you guys mention.  However, there is at least one Yahoo group that I am a member of that adds to much to the footer, that it always gets put through, and not silently discarded.  So there is apparently some trigger level of changes that ensure you'll still see the messages.

[Andy]

> I do not subscribe to, or participate in any groups that allow moderators
> this type of behavior (to change the content of what I send; either they let
> it through as I sent it, or reject it outright), so I don't have this worry
> you guys mention.

BUT ... you belong to this group, and even this group modifies your
messages. It alters the subject line by adding [Gmail-Users] to it,
and it adds half a dozen lines to the footer. True, no human
moderator manually *wrote* them, and those things never (well, almost
never) change, but they are added nonetheless. Yet Gmail ignores
those changes and sees it as a duplicate and destroys the received
copy.

> However, there is at least one Yahoo group that I am a
> member of that adds to much to the footer, that it always gets put through,
> and not silently discarded. So there is apparently some trigger level of
> changes that ensure you'll still see the messages.

I subscribe to a ton of Yahoo groups. Most of them automatically add
nearly two dozen lines to the footer, some add more, some add less ...
and they ALL get trashed by Gmail as "duplicates".

Gmail also trashes the ones where the moderator adds either tiny or
large amounts of text to my emails.

If there is a threshold, I haven't seen it yet. Something else may be
going on with the Yahoo group you mentioned, because I do not see that
behavior.

I've developed workarounds. I subscribe twice to many email lists,
using one address for sending emails and another for receiving them.
It's a PITA.

This truly annoying Gmail trait is the longest standing grudge I have
with Gmail. I cannot understand why they can't just make it a user
option, whether to trash duplicates or let me keep them. It should be
MY choice, not dictated by their arrogance. They are not doing me any
favors by trashing those messages. It does not "save me time and
prevent clutter".

Andy