Ubuntu
evolution package

mail I send to myself does not appear in my Inbox.

Bug #111814 reported by Yotam Benshalom
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Evolution
Invalid
Medium
evolution (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Low
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: evolution

I use Evolution with gmail POP account. Whenever I send myself a message it
appears in my gmail inbox (I can see using gmail's web interface), but it is
not downloaded back to Evolution's inbox.
This behaviour, which appears to be intentional, is problematic, because
sending a letter to yourself is an important diagnostic tool. I want all of the
messages in my gmail account to be downloaded, no matter who has sent them.
I reported this on Evolution's bugzilla as well: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=435230

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed May 2 17:24:30 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evolution-2.10
Package: evolution 2.10.1-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: evolution --component=mail
ProcCwd: /home/yotam
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evolution
Uname: Linux ubuntu 2.6.20-15-generic #2 SMP Sun Apr 15 07:36:31 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

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Yotam Benshalom (benshalom) wrote :
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug. No need to open upstream bug on launchpad if they are not something which should be fixed for the next Ubuntu version we can't work on every upstream bug. Are you sure that the sent mails are stored to the received account and that's not some magic of the gmail interface merging them when displaying the list?

Changed in evolution:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Undecided → Low
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Yotam Benshalom (benshalom) wrote :

I checked this several times. This happens whenever I send a message to my gmail pop account using gmail smtp server, but not when I send a message using a different smtp server (then the message downloads to evolution as normal). Maybe this is a really a gmail magic, recognising mail sent by its own smtp and not granting it pop access? I'll ask gmail support about this.

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Changed in evolution:
status: Unknown → Unconfirmed
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Yotam Benshalom (benshalom) wrote :

OK, this is a Gmail feature.
reciting from http://mail.google.com/support/bin/static.py?page=troubleshooter.cs&problem=bugflow&selected=bugflow_pop28:
"When you send a message to your Google Mail account from your POP client, you will not receive a copy. However, messages you send to your Google Mail address from your Google Mail account will arrive in your inbox if you are the only recipient."

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

closing the bug then, that's not one

Changed in evolution:
status: Confirmed → Rejected
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in evolution:
status: New → Invalid
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in evolution:
importance: Unknown → Medium
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