Gmail Sent Copies.

[JonTheRvelator]

Whenever I send out an email with gmail I get a copy of it as a new email, anyone know how to stop this?

[JonTheRvelator]

someone has to be experiencing the same issue.

[The Bruce]

I am, but I don't know the solution. I think this can't be solved by us.

[yayaba]

I think it's a function of how Google treats POP3 email. One solution is to set up a filter so stuff sent by yourself goes into the spam folder.

I don't think there's anyway to disable it.

[slffl]

Ya, same thing happens here. I think Gmail POP is checking your 'All email' folder, instead of just your inbox folder. So when you send an email it gets put in the 'All email' folder as well.

It would be nice if Gmail was IMAP.

[Cybergypsy]

mine does the same thing

[speedyj88]

had the same problem, and figured out the solution.

go into your mail settings, and go into advanced settings and turn off recent mode.

you can all thank me later.

[JonTheRvelator]

what exactly is recent mode?

[hamedatl]

had the same problem, and figured out the solution.

go into your mail settings, and go into advanced settings and turn off recent mode.

you can all thank me later.

Holy crap, thanks so much. By the way guys, that setting only shows up if you've setup a "Gmail" account. If you do it manually with the POP servers, it doesn't give that option.

[JonTheRvelator]

I try that and I don't get any email with the phone.

[ericld]

Guys, this subject has been beat to death here. Go do a search on it and you will find your answer. Gmail uses a thread based system. Every mail you send gets send back to you in a way. Simply add a filter at gmail.com to delete all mail from YOURSELF.

I even wrote a tutorial on this. Search for "explanation of 2 modes" in iphone troubleshooting

[MrCompletely]

I found the best way to deal with this is to set up a yahoo or aim email, and set gmail to forward all mail to that second account.
On the iphone, manually set up an email account (don't use the AOL, GMAIL, or Yahoo pre-sets) so that your yahoo or aim is the incoming mail server and gmail is the outgoing. The benefit of this method is that you can use Push (yahoo) or IMAP (aim mail) with your gmail account.

[JonTheRvelator]

what is the incoming mail server for yahoo? and doesn't yahoo use imap?

[siurpeeman]

had the same problem, and figured out the solution.

go into your mail settings, and go into advanced settings and turn off recent mode.

you can all thank me later.

doing this restricted all incoming mail. i just live with the sent email copy and delete it.

[rwdebes]

maybe going to SETTINGS on gmail ?

i have the same problem here.. ill check if i can stop this.

[whyrichard]

I found the best way to deal with this is to set up a yahoo or aim email, and set gmail to forward all mail to that second account.
On the iphone, manually set up an email account (don't use the AOL, GMAIL, or Yahoo pre-sets) so that your yahoo or aim is the incoming mail server and gmail is the outgoing. The benefit of this method is that you can use Push (yahoo) or IMAP (aim mail) with your gmail account.

hey,


... thanks for your patience... but for the life of me i don't know what are the propper settings to have recieve through yahoo mail, but send through gmail...


what do i put in:
incoming mail server:
host name...

outgoing mail server
host name....

thanks,
r.

[milk242]

hi i don't know the yahoo setting but i think the gmail setting is smtp.gmail.com. I think someone posted the yahoo setting somewhere on the forum

[Cybergypsy]

filter does not work

[cjandnw]

Guys, this subject has been beat to death here. Go do a search on it and you will find your answer. Gmail uses a thread based system. Every mail you send gets send back to you in a way. Simply add a filter at gmail.com to delete all mail from YOURSELF.

I even wrote a tutorial on this. Search for "explanation of 2 modes" in iphone troubleshooting

Filter did not work.

[johnnybluejeans]

Filter did not work.

The filter method works.. you must be doing something wrong.

[pyn]

filtering doesnt work

from: my email addy
action: skip inbox

nothing happens

[poppe]

The only thing that has worked for me is to turn of Recent Mode... Or was it turn it on? Well what ever is opposite of what comes the standard setting.

But then I stopped getting emails after day 1. So now I just have the fun joy of getting my email when I write a message.... Ya....:(

[coelacanth]

Easiest filtering would be

From: myname@gmail.com

Does not have: "self: "

Action: Delete


If I wanna intentionally send a note or something to myself, I add the keyword for "Does not have" rule so that it won't be deleted.

It's working just fine for me.