[TxMt] Using gmail and not seeing own messages

[Charilaos Skiadas]

On Aug 8, 2007, at 9:54 AM, Niels Kobschätzki wrote:

> On Aug 8, 2007, at 3:49 PM, Charilaos Skiadas wrote:
>
>> Hopefully someone can help me with the following simple problem.
>>
>> I recently moved to a gmail account for my mailing list  
>> subscriptions. I have enabled POP access in gmail, and set  
>> Mail.app to read those messages. Everything works just fine,  
>> except for the fact that I never get to see my own messages to the  
>> list, even though I have set my list preferences so as to receive  
>> them. Anyone encountered this before?
>
> That's the normal behaviour of GMail (it's a feature, not a bug).

I can only consider it a feature in the M$ meaning of the word. This  
is definitely a bug in my eyes.
http://playbacktime.com/2007/01/22/gmail-pop-mailing-lists-broken/

> It detects your messages from mailing-lists and doesn't send them  
> too you. You can see them in the thread view of GMail.

It should at the very least _tell_ me that it is not sending them to  
me, instead of silently making them disappear. I've set it to take  
messages it POPs out of my inbox, and this results in them  
disappearing essentially (Though the "all mail" folder contains them  
still).

> Because I'm using Mail.app I set up smart folders for each  
> subscribed mailing list which include my own sent mails to the  
> mailing list. Then I can see them, too as well.

I have set rules that move the files to local mailboxes, but of  
course those rules only apply to incoming mail :(

> Another workaround could be to use the user  
> "recent:yourgmailaccount" instead "yourgmailaccount" (but I'm not  
> 100% sure about that - but it should work)

I might have to do something like that.

> Niels

Haris Skiadas
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Hanover College