I tried to forward an email that landed in my Gmail account to a 3rd party (through the Gmail web interface); should be simple enough…
However, I check my own emails immediately afterwards, and I had received the forwarded email, back in my Gmail account.
The headers of this email are something like this:
MIME-Version: 1.0
Received: by 10.68.212.3 with HTTP; Fri, 25 May 2012 03:20:14 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <201205250719.q4P7JjHn009297@ast-m01.mail.aol.com>
References: <201205250719.q4P7JjHn009297@ast-m01.mail.aol.com>
Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 11:20:14 +0100
Delivered-To: me@gmail.com
Message-ID: <CAGkfXuiZKGY9qut7Wu1m7F6pPLmoG9AbcvY3h6bfLLE+PQauSg@mail.gmail.com>
Subject: Fwd: AOL Postmaster Support Request #97257 Update
From: Me <me@gmail.com>
To: target@example.com
I'm puzzled.. the Delivered To header presumably means that the email was delivered to me (which it was) but why? The To header correctly shows my target.
Did I automatically get a copy of the email? Or have I (only) received the mail?
I tried forwarding the email on to another account of mine. I received the forwarded email in the target account, but also received a copy back in my Gmail account.
Not sure why I get the unnecessary copy sent back to me, nor how to stop it.
I normally use Gmail through a client (Outlook/Thunderbird); I'll try forwarding via the client and see what happens.
Best Answer
The only way this all makes sense is that target@example.com has a setting which says "Forward all incoming mails to me@gmail.com"
One another possibility is that your message was not delivered and you received a new message in the same tread saying, "Message Delivery Failed" but you have not noticed that until now.