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Re: Using gmail and not seeing own messages

by Niels Kobschaetzki :: Rate this Message:

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On Aug 8, 2007, at 4:48 PM, Charilaos Skiadas wrote:

>
> On Aug 8, 2007, at 10:23 AM, Brian Landau wrote:
>
>> This is really only an issue for Gmail users who access it via
>> Mail.app or some other email desktop client. If you're using the  
>> Gmail
>> supplied web interface then everything is done in "conversations",  
>> and
>> then it makes sense for them to automatically not show you your
>> response.
>
> I suppose what you mean is that in conversation mode it shows you  
> the message you sent out, and so has no need to show you the  
> message you would receive, otherwise I can hardly envision a  
> conversation mode where your part of the conversation is not shown.  
> This I could almost buy, though I still think it is being too smart  
> for its own good (rather, for my own good). But suppose I just want  
> to send myself a reminder email. It will receive it and show it in  
> its web interface in the inbox there, but it will never send it  
> through POP. It effectively doesn't allow me to send emails to  
> myself. Is there really a good technical reason for that?

Try sending mails to yourself and you'll see that it works - I do it  
all the time. It happens only to mails which are sent to mailing lists.

Niels



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