[MlMt] Gmail, self-BCC, and the inbox

[Shoshanna Green]

I'm using MailMate with a Gmail account, and I BCC mail to myself, so that a copy of my own message will land in my inbox. (I've never understood the point of Sent Mail folders. I don't want to have to flip back and forth to see both halves of a conversation -- and I dislike "conversation view." I just want to see individual messages, in order.)

Usually a message that I've sent and BCCed to myself lands in my MailMate inbox as it should. But occasionally Gmail apparently intercepts it somehow and doesn't give it the "Inbox" label, meaning that it doesn't show up in my MailMate inbox. I have to notice that it didn't arrive, go into Gmail's web interface, open Sent Mail, and manually move the message to my inbox, whereupon it obediently shows up in my MailMate inbox.

I can't find any pattern to when this happens. I just sent two messages, five minutes apart, and one appeared in my inbox and the other one didn't.

The obvious way to kluge a solution to this would be to set up a Gmail filter that applies the Inbox label to all messages arriving from me. But "Inbox" is not an option in the "Apply a Label" dropdown when creating a Gmail filter, so I can't do that.

Does anyone have an idea what might be happening, or a suggestion for how to fix it? I recognize that asking a question that's essentially "How can I make Gmail behave sensibly?" invites a response of bitter laughter -- and also that this isn't really a MailMate question at all, sorry, but asking the Internet at large how to make Gmail behave sensibly isn't any help at all. So this group of smart tech-savvy people is what I've got... Thanks for any ideas!

Shoshanna Green (she/her)
shoshannag at gmail.com