• joomama (unregistered) in reply to The Bard
    The Bard:
    I had a boss (manager of computing department at a college) who would put "Re:" at the beginning of the subject line of EVERY email he sent out. I think he thought it meant "Regarding" but I would always get it and think he was replying to something I had sent. 2 years working for him and I never had the guts to tell him it made him seem ridiculous.

    It DOES mean regarding.

    Oh you send me an email on "spiny cucumbers".. well my reply will be regarding that subject, hence "RE: spiny cucumbers". Then the reply to that would be regarding your message regarding etc..

    There is nothing wrong with starting a subject with RE, especially if it is continuing a topic you were speaking on earlier. The real WTF is that you thought RE means "reply". Are you 14 or something?

  • Steve (unregistered)

    Of course, if you're using 

    /bin/mail
    as your mail reader, that's the only way to do it.

    Personally, that's what I use as I've never found another mail reader that did what it does as efficiently and as reliably.

  • Dark (unregistered) in reply to Eduardo Habkost
    Eduardo Habkost:
    Dark:
    "impossible with the way email works"? WTF.

    This was The Real WTF, because the professor was just asking for a client-side change and told it was impossible. The old professor was just asking Victor to contact the people responsible for the e-mail client software, and request this feature. It shouldn't be too hard to implement, right? :)

    Yes, because installing a better email client is inconceivable :)

  • Mike (unregistered)

    Most mail clients have an option to put replies somewhere else, e.g. in the same folder you're replying to the message from. This is what I do with Thunderbird...

  • me (unregistered)

    My email client (Thunderbird) is set up to automatically bcc myself on all my outgoing emails. The filter moves incoming emails from myself to 'Sent' folder. This way when I receive the mail at home, all my messages sent from the office are also received and moved to local 'Sent' folder at home. And vice versa, all messages sent from home are received at work and moved to local 'Sent' folder there. The result is that 'Sent' folders are always synchronized in all location, just like the inbox.

  • RWA (unregistered) in reply to APH

    RE means 'in reference to' or 'in the case of' look it up. Pretty sure it was around a bit longer than email technology.

  • Anthony (unregistered)

    You know he could have given the prof what he wanted with an inbound rile on new messages with that where bcc to himself.

  • N*tesAdmin (unregistered) in reply to Troy Mclure

    There is another reason a person may want to CC to themselves, if they use a Ltus Ntes server: some people use it to avoid losing the sent copy of their e-mails, if the quotas are configured to preclude saving sent messages but not for receiving them.

  • Dilbert (unregistered) in reply to Critter

    Someone's been sipping the koolaid :-)

    When you first meet someone, you know very little about them and draw inferences, filling in the gaps as you get to know them better. I applaud your technical savvy, but the gender stats in the tech world are fairly easy to see; certainly this does not imply the existence of an intelligence gap.

    Warmly, Dilbert

  • jessica dempsey (unregistered)

    i totally do this with the older people i work with. tell them "i'll look into it" when they're not satisfied with my answer, and then come back to them in a little while claiming to have looked into it and reached the same conclusion that i reached the moment the older person inquired about it. it seems it's the only way to pacify technology challenged adults these days.

  • James McGill (unregistered) in reply to cliff
    cliff:
    Your boss wasn't at all ridiculous for thinking that this was correct, however, you were a little ridiculous for assuming it meant 're'plying and keeping it to yourself and never mentioning it to him - you might have learned a bit of what it was like in the world when letter writing was the prevalent method of communication.

    Say, before the 1990s or so. Good grief.

  • James McGill (unregistered) in reply to RWA
    RWA:
    RE means 'in reference to' or 'in the case of' look it up. Pretty sure it was around a bit longer than email technology.

    It should be equally embarrassing to young people who are ignorant of communication protocols that extend decades or even centuries before the technology that they ridicule old people for not understanding.

  • Alexander (unregistered) in reply to htg
    Does Thunderbird's threaded view have an option where it can snatch your replies from your sent mail folder and show them in the thread?
    Thunderbird cannot show your conversation if the emails are stored in different folders. Please consider voting in bugzilla.

    https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=382693

    Outlook can show the conversation correct but AFAIK only on the outlook client where you send your email and not on a second computer/client/login.

    As for the original topic

    To: [another professor] From: [another professor]

    Victor explained that this was, in fact, impossible with the way email works ...

    It is possible to write anything in the From field and FCC/BCC to yourself. A primitive client like Pine can accomplish it.

  • MaWe (unregistered) in reply to zip

    Yes, exactly. I also do that to know, if a message is sent. Especially when you have troubles with the mailserver sometimes this is an option. Sending and copying to the sent folder are two steps, if the second did not succeed and you get a rather unclear error you don't know, if the message was sent or not. I don't want to resend the messages, especially if there are attachments, otherwise the person will see his inbox filled.

    Filter rules help to put them aside, and an automatic cleanup helps not to let the mailaccount burst.

  • (cs) in reply to The Vicar

    I dual-boot Windows and Linux. I bcc myself to ensure that I have easy access to all of my sent emails, whether I sent them in Windows or Linux. I'm sure there are more elegant ways to do this, but this way more or less works for my purposes.

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