Why would you want to always BCC yourself?

Some people only have POP3 email accounts. With a POP3 account, if you are using the iPhone as well as a computer email client, you may want to keep some record of messages you have sent all in one location, perhaps the computer email client. However, if you reply to someone using the iPhone, you would not have that record on the computer email client. BCC yourself provides you a copy you can pick up on the computer email client and then move to the Sent folder for a record. While this is not necessary for IMAP or Exchange, not everyone has that luxury.

Not only "plausible", but in fact is the correct answer as to why you would want to "always" bcc yourself.

Hi there. There are many reasons. For me, keeping it minimal is mandatory. I don't want to look for an email in my sent folders, I need it to be in my inbox. Everything is in my inbox but last year emails. I keep emails by years.

Moreover, I set my server to automatically save sent emails in my inbox. I set the same in mail.app, and I wish I could be happily able to do it with my iphone, but it is not the case because -nobody really knows why- I cannot check my inbox in the account>something>advanced tab>mailbox rules>sent messages.

So what I can do on my desktop is not allowed on the ios mail.app and that is bad. Moreover, the standard setup for the iphone sent folder is Sent Messages while many servers have Sent instead, and this creates two IMAP folders.

So I am with you with the question, but in another way. My question is instead: why iPhone/iOS developers didn't allow people to have their sent messages saved in their lovely inbox and created such a bad and inefficient option called "always bcc myself"?

Thank you. If this was a test, I'm glad I stayed up and studied for it!! 😎

Well, if you have an Exchange or IMAP account, copies of sent mail are already available on all of your computers/devices in the sent mail folder. Thus, bcc'ing yourself would just be a needless duplication. Normally, bcc is used to hide others that receice the same message from each other. I can't think of any logical reason why anyone would bcc themselves "always" unless they only had a POP account.

For my job, I am constantly sharing email accounts for a specfic project. In order for everyone to keep up to date on what is being sent and responded to, I do, even with exchange and IMAP, want the option to BCC myself, that way even on my phone and with my apple mail I can see what emails were sent via the gmail account I have forwarding to my personal emails.

To each their own. You can still see that info without bcc'ing yourself, but hey that's why cars come in different colors.