Re: Using gmail and not seeing own messages

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