On Friday, January 25, 2013 4:28:00 AM UTC+1, Zack Tennant wrote: > I disagree completely. This is not an "obvious shortcoming", or "clearly > broken", and not a basic flaw. If you are using the web interface, you > always have a copy of the message in your sent mail, so what's the point of > BCC'ing yourself. If you're using an offline client, you can use IMAP to > have it available, and could use the client's BCC function. > I have never wanted to BCC myself in any client I've ever had, never seen > the point. And I still can't get my head wrapped around why someone would > need to on EVERY e-mail. If you want an occasional one, you can manually > do it. >
So because you've never needed the feature then it's a pointless feature?! There's a reason why the vast majority of email clients support this feature -- lots of people NEED it. Can they work around it using something like your suggested offline client with IMAP? Yes. But if I had a car with no engine I could still push it down the road but that wouldn't keep me from suggesting that they add the engine -- and it wouldn't stop me from saying that the lack of an engine was a flaw in the design! My wife and I have separate gmail accounts fed by a single forwarding address so that we get the same copies of all incoming emails. That leaves our inboxes sync'd, but I'd like out "sent mail' to be sync'd as well. I would like to set up an auto-BCC using plus addressing and filters so that all my sent mail and all her sent mail automatically goes into the other person's sent mail for searchability. You'll note there is no offline client here and we're not dealing with some complex business situation. Just a simple situation with a couple who would like their "sent mail" folders to be sync'd as well as their inboxes. It is normal, basic functionality for email clients and gmail's lack of it is a shortcoming/flaw. > Just cause you want a feature does not mean it's a flaw to not have it. > And, how many times have you suggested it to Google? Many of the features > I've seen suggested more than a few times show up as a lab or a direct > feature. > And just because you personally don't need a feature doesn't mean you represent the world or are the new "standard" by which all others must measure themselves. I have personally suggested this to gmail roughly 25 times in the appropriate group over a period of several years in addition to asking friends to do the same in addition to signing the online petition to have the feature (673 signatures to date -- see http://www.petitiononline.com/gmailbcc/petition.html) To date, as far as I can tell, zero/zip/nada from the google team. -Peter -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
