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Gmail and not seeing own mailing lists posts

Has anyone encountered this, or more specifically, know how to fix it?

I’m using gmail to host my linsec.ca mail, and accessing it via POP3 (fetchmail->procmail->mutt). When I send mail out, I send it out via gmail’s SMTP server. The problem is that I never see what I wrote. If I send a message to a mailing list, I see replies to it, other messages, etc. but I have yet to actually see the message *I* wrote to the list. I’ve poked around in the gmail settings but don’t see anything relevant. When I was hosting stuff myself, I obviously got my messages so this isn’t a list setting… this is on all the lists I’m on. It’s quite frustrating as I’d like to get a copy back of the messages I send as I often have the (bad) habit of replying to myself.

Has anyone come across this and figured out how to tell gmail to stop doing whatever it’s doing with those messages? It would be ok if they even showed up in my spam folder, but I’m not seeing them at all and it’s now truly starting to bug me.

7 Comments
Jun 17, 2008
By vdanen Life

7 Comments

  1. Qilaq

    Well, it’s said it’s GMail’s feature :-)
    Of course, for protecting you “clutter” in Inbox…
    See http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/linfaq.html#gmail

    Jun 17, 2008 @ 21:58:12

  2. Colin

    It’s a Gmail “feature”. I don’t know how to fix it.

    Jun 18, 2008 @ 02:13:47

  3. FACORAT Fabrice

    Same thing for me.
    You need to use the web interface, or maybe try IMAP. When using IMAP, it may be possible to create a filter where sender = your email, dest = ML, and apply the tag where your emails for the ML are stored.

    Jun 18, 2008 @ 04:26:46

  4. vdanen

    That’s a ridiculous “feature”. If nothing else, you should be able to turn it on or off… that would just be common sense. My appreciation for gmail just went down a notch. =(

    Jun 18, 2008 @ 08:09:26

  5. christophe

    I’ve found two work-around :
    * using another smtp server (but then, the mails you send from your mail reader are not stored on gmail servers)
    * using a feature of claws-mail to keep sent mails in the folder, instead of storing them in the classical “Sent” folder.

    Jun 18, 2008 @ 12:09:11

  6. Adam Pigg

    Same here, and i too found it annoying. One way i get around it is to not use gmail for mailing lists, i had too much mail anyway, so i configured all the mailing lists possible to not send to me, and instead use KNode to view the lists as a newsgroup via gmane.

    Jun 19, 2008 @ 04:15:26

  7. yoho

    I’m probably the only one here, but I find this feature actually useful. Now, you can throw the tomatoes ! :)

    Jun 27, 2008 @ 18:16:29

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