Sent message not showing on message string

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Sent message not showing on message string

Every time I reply to a message in my inbox on Mac mail I used to be able to see the sent message and the original message right there in the inbox. Now all of a sudden when I reply to a message I am not seeing that message I sent. I will only see the original email that was sent to me. I have to go in my sent folder and look through it to see if I replied to someone and what the message was.

Do you think I changed some type of setting my mistake. It seems like this just happened all of a sudden in the past couple weeks or less. I'm not sure if I updated something on the computer and that. Did it.

Any help please?

iMac 27″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Sep 20, 2020 11:23 AM

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BDAqua

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Sep 20, 2020 11:50 AM in response to dannymarg

Hmmm, that is the way it should work and the way it has always worked here... no idea why the Sent one showed up in Inbox unless...

Mail>preferences>Composing>Automatically CC or BCC myself is checked.

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Oct 19, 2020 10:56 AM in response to BDAqua

Yes. I was able to find an example. My iPad mail still is showing like it always has. I took a screenshot of that. This is what my Mac mail used to look like but all the sudden changed. Now on Mac mail I see an arrow pointing to the left that’s That’s curved showing I have replied to the message. My iPad shows all the messages themselves. You’ll see the chain of messages back-and-forth. Take a look at the screenshot.

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BDAqua

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Oct 20, 2020 8:31 AM in response to dannymarg

Oh wait, do you mean the Sent does not show in Conversation?

Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at startup), does the problem occur in Safe Mode?

Safe mode attempts to repair Disks & clears lots of caches & loads safe Drivers, & prevents loading of 3rd party extensions, so if Safe Mode works try again in regular boot.

Open Terminal and run each of these...

sudo mdutil -E /

This basically asks for temporary super user status, which is why Terminal may ask you for your password (it may not if you’ve used a sudo command recently or are already logged in as a super user or root. The command asks the unix tool mdutil to reindex the spotlight database for everything on the computer, including external drives, mounted disk images, etc. To re-index only for a specific drive, use the /Volumes path. For example, for an external drive named “MiniMe,” the command would look like this:

sudo mdutil -i on /

Rebuilding a drive index can take a long time, so be prepared to wait whether you do it through the System Preference panel or the command line.

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