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?
I highly recommend not using desktop email clients with Gmail. Instead you might want to try Mailplane ( http://mailplaneapp.com/ ) which offers most (not all) of the features you would want out of a desktop email client (like drag and drop, and notifications) but uses the Gmail web interface.
I might consider it, though the reason I don't use the web interface of gmail is that I don't like the web interface of gmail, so this won't help me much. In addition to that, I actually have 2-3 different email accounts, and Mail.app allows me to look at all of them at once (and no I am not about to consolidate everything to gmail).
- Brian
Haris Skiadas Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Hanover College