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From: Alex Ghitza <aghitza@gmail.com>
To: Jed Brown <jed@59A2.org>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
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Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 11:24:52 +1100
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Subject: Re: [notmuch] keeping a copy of sent mail locally
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On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 02:55:16 -0800, Jed Brown <jed@59A2.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 15:41:14 +1100, Alex Ghitza <aghitza@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Bcc-ing myself on every sent message is suboptimal for a number of
> > reasons: (1) gmail throws away the bcc-ed copy since it has the same
> > message id as the one sitting in the gmail sent mail, and so the
> > bcc-ed copy never makes it back to my local mail;
> 
> I agree it is suboptimal, but are you sure this is true?  I send
> messages via gmail and those having Bcc to me are marked as new and
> downloaded by the next pass of getmail (via POP).
> 

Aha!  Your reply prodded me to investigate this further.  The problem
seems to be in the way I'm working with the emacs "Message" mode.
Namely, Bcc works fine when I *reply* to a message from notmuch in
emacs: while composing the reply I see the automatically added Bcc
header, and after sending through gmail and getting the new mail via POP
I get the message back. 

However, if I'm using notmuch in emacs and press 'm' to compose a new
message, then the Bcc header is not added automatically and I guess it's
not surprising that the rest doesn't work as expected.

So where is the difference between 'm' and 'r' coming from?  I have
(setq mail-self-blind t)  in my .emacs, and I thought that should take
care of things, but it obviously doesn't.


Best,
Alex

-- 
Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne
-- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/