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>Gmail will put messages from you in the Sent folder (label) even when they are sent from outside Gmail. On the principle of least surprise, this would seem to
by logicallee 9y ago
>Gmail will put messages from you in the Sent folder (label) even when they are sent from outside Gmail.
On the principle of least surprise, this would seem to be incomplete behavior. I bet every single person reading this was surprised.
It's not a bad place to put such mail, so I suggest that on its web and mobile interface, Gmail simply put some kind of badge for sent mail sent from outside Gmail or your devices. Example:
https://imgur.com/a/KEMf1HM https://imgur.com/a/KEMf1HM
(Notice the ⓘ [circled i] in the first line.)
Source: I mocked above up from Google image search for "gmail sent folder" and an open clipart "information icon".
If you click on that i or hover it should mention that some of these messages were sent from outside Gmail or from your authorized devices but have been put in your Sent folder because your email address is in the from: field.
- angry_octet 9y agoPeople notoriously won't know what a new badge means, and this being an uncommon scenario, no one will, panic ensues. It might be better if such email was automatically marked as spam until the user marks it as good. If they keep doing that, then that send path should gain elevated trust. (I mean, they are using some ML system here right?) I'm imagining an anti-spam-campaign supervisor system that also tracks spam with some sort of soft hash (or ML), running across many user's email.
- Izkata 9y agoI can see this getting easily confused with emoji subject lines: http://www.emailmarketingtipps.de/2015/05/11/animated-emojis-in-gmail-subject-lines-cheat-sheet/ http://www.emailmarketingtipps.de/2015/05/11/animated-emojis...