I'm only at two and a half decades, but I still bcc myself in MailMate. On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 3:02 PM, Shoshanna Green <shoshan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> For three decades, I've kept track of my outgoing mail by BCC:ing myself. > When I first started using email (pine on unix systems), I don't think > "Sent Messages" were even a thing, and then they were a thing but they > filed my outgoing mail apart from my incoming mail, which makes no sense to > me. I want mail I send to be in my inbox, with other new and recent mail, > until I file or delete it. So I just kludged it with BCC. (I can't be the > only person who does this; Thunderbird has an "Always BCC myself" > preference.) But this is one of the legacy kludges I'm hoping to clean up > in a shift to MailMate. > > Just yesterday I commented on ticket #213, Keep replies in same folder ( > http://freron.lighthouseapp.com/projects/58672/tickets/ > 213-keep-replies-in-same-folder), which seemed like the closest I could > get to this in MailMate, but which still isn't quite right for me. But this > morning it occurred to me that MMate's experimental 2.0 feature of Rules > lets me just set up a rule on my Sent Messages mailbox that says to move > all incoming messages to my Inbox! So simple. So obvious. > > Is there any reason I shouldn't do that? I've always strenuously ignored > Sent Messages folders, so if this is going to mess something up behind the > scenes, please tell me. > > -- > Shoshanna Green > shoshan...@gmail.com > _______________________________________________ > mailmate mailing list > mailmate@lists.freron.com > http://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate >
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