Attempting to cc: myself in e-mail

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Sometimes I want to send myself a copy of an email when I send it out. I usually do that either in the To: or CC: line. It used to work, but does not work now.

I am using Outlook 2010. I have 3 pop email accounts 1 Exchange account configured in outlook. I recently added the Exchange account, but did not notice if the problem started at that point.

Any suggestions??

Thanks,

John

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What happens when you ad your email address to the CC line?

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I do not get the email. Same in the To: line

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Is it possible that you created an anti-spam rule that deletes messages sent from your own address?

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No, I have no rules at all

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Can you test using each of your accounts (use the Accounts button to send on the account which is intended to receive) and see which ones have this issue?

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Can you test using each of your accounts (use the Accounts button to send on the account which is intended to receive) and see which ones have this issue?

In addition, send email only to yourself. See if it shows in “Sent items”, that should indicate if the problem is in sending or receiving–two different functions.

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Additional information. It only appears to be the default email. I have tried all the others and am able to email myself. The sent file does show the email in the email, so it is getting sent out.

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TO or CC self in yahoo does not work. So if I want a copy of the email in the Outlook inbox, I copy it from the sent folder, or send it from another email account, in my case a windows live account.

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I may sound dumb but try anyway:
– click File>accounts>accounts>change>test account setting (i’m sure it will be OK)
– click File>accounts>accounts>repair
– compose a test message To: yourself/ CC: yourself / BCC: yourself. click on options: type out your email address on ‘send reply to’

if this works okay, then your self CC is either going to: delete, spam, junk, archive.

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OK, We are getting somewhere. I did as Roop suggested and did the repair. I got one email, should have gotten three. Went back and sent myself via To: and it worked. Thanks for the suggestions.

John

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Welcome……at least we made a start

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Welcome……at least we made a start

The answer is: All emails to myself went to the Bulk Mail folder.
The fix was to make a rule having all email from my own address go to Inbox.
I have Outlook provided in the new Office 365 cloud package.

I use IMAP to a godaddy subsidiary’s service.

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The answer is: All emails to myself went to the Bulk Mail folder.
The fix was to make a rule having all email from my own address go to Inbox.
I have Outlook provided in the new Office 365 cloud package.

I use IMAP to a godaddy subsidiary’s service.

Why are you responding to a 5 year old thread?

Joe

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Sorry if it sounds dumb, but you have confirmed that other people do get your emails?

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Yes, others are getting the emails. That was the first thing I checked.

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And I suppose that happens regardless of the email account you use to send the message?

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Do you by chance use gmail? I read in the Yahoo group managers forums that gmail does not return your own messages to you.

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No not using Gmail. 3 pop accounts and 1 Exchange account

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I don’t run 2010 but on older versions tend to look for workarounds.

If you have three POP-3 accounts and one exchange account, then, presumably a CC to an address that represents you but is different from your sending one would be possible?

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Ok, that shows, IMHO, that it is not an Outlook issue, at least in the sending part. I can’t figure out a reason for Outlook to behave one way with some accounts and differently with others, unless you had rules to deal with email sent from different accounts in different ways. Which is the default account? Who is the provider for that account?

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Comcast. This is new it used to work fine.

I also go to my web browser and check my email there – nothing and I have it on my iphone and nothing there either.

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On that account, have you tried to CC yourself, but to one of the accounts from another provider?

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Not sure this will help as I am in Outlook 2007 and wanted an easy way to do what you are trying for a diff. reason. I wanted to “BCC” a large list of people but did not want them all to see each other’s addresses. Outlook would not send without something in the “To” line, so I added a contact for myself in my address book, put that in the “To” line, and it worked. Maybe worth a try.

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Not sure this will help as I am in Outlook 2007 and wanted an easy way to do what you are trying for a diff. reason. I wanted to “BCC” a large list of people but did not want them all to see each other’s addresses. Outlook would not send without something in the “To” line, so I added a contact for myself in my address book, put that in the “To” line, and it worked. Maybe worth a try.

I use 2003 and I send messages with nothing in the To: line all the time. The only addresses are in the BCC: list and it works fine. I can also send from any of my accounts to any of my accounts without a problem. They may have changed the behavior in 2007 and/or 2010 but I suspect the problems described are not Outlook problems.

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Just sending with Bcc works fine on 2010 and I seem to remember it did as well in 2007.

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