viewing email in public .. !!! or using it but not viewing

i'd like to be able to email myself, and check that I received the
email.
with another person possibly looking over my shoulder, without them
seeing all my emails. I won't need to see all my email either.

yahoo is close.. I can log in, compose a new mail..send. Without
viewing my inbox.
I guess I could log out and in again. And it'll tell me if i received
a new message.

I know yahoo has a notepad feature, which is almost there, I can file
notes. But the default is that it shows ALL notes whether files or
not, and I can't change that.


any other ideas? I'd be doing this from different locations. I don't
want to find out which is the mail server for each location and log
into their smtp server to do it. I I just want a simple web based
solution, it's portable.

Re: viewing email in public .. !!! or using it but not viewing

In news:1172710946.849845.169240@k78g2000cwa.googlegroups.com,
jameshanley39@yahoo.co.uk wrote:

> i'd like to be able to email myself, and check that I received the
> email.
....
> yahoo is close.. I can log in, compose a new mail..send. Without
> viewing my inbox.
> I guess I could log out and in again. And it'll tell me if i received
> a new message.

Most browsers have a reload button, but you know what I always say ... Why
do something reasonable when you can go to a *lot* of trouble?

Re: viewing email in public .. !!! or using it but not viewing

On 1 Mar, 01:44, "patrick" wrote:
> Innews:1172710946.849845.169240@k78g2000cwa.googlegroups.com ,
>
>
>
> jameshanle...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> > i'd like to be able to email myself, and check that I received the
> > email.
> ...
> > yahoo is close.. I can log in, compose a new mail..send. Without
> > viewing my inbox.
> > I guess I could log out and in again. And it'll tell me if i received
> > a new message.
>
> Most browsers have a reload button, but you know what I always say ... Why
> do something reasonable when you can go to a *lot* of trouble?

fair point. I just realised, I can send an email, then click "Mail"
instead of "Check Mail". It won't show me my inbox, just number of new
messages in my inbox and in my bulk.

The weakness is that I won't see the contents of the email I sent
myself. To know and verify. And it's possible somebody else sent me
an email and hence my inbox or bulk is incremented . I suppose a
nice solution would be if a filter drops it in the folder I want. I
could then put some string like *_* in the subject of my email and
it'll go to that folder instead of inbox. Then I only view that
folder.

Re: viewing email in public .. !!! or using it but not viewing

"jameshanley39@yahoo.co.uk" wrote:

>The weakness is that I won't see the contents of the email I sent
>myself. To know and verify. ....

Maybe I'm misunderstanding your requirements, but why don't you set up
an account at Hotmail or Yahoo or somewhere which you use only for the
purpose of this testing? Then you can open the inbox etc without
worrying about there being any other mails in there.

Re: viewing email in public .. !!! or using it but not viewing

jameshanley39@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
[deleted]

> I suppose a
> nice solution would be if a filter drops it in the folder I want. I
> could then put some string like *_* in the subject of my email and
> it'll go to that folder instead of inbox. Then I only view that
> folder.

Then why don't you do exactly that, i.e. use a Filter? Mail -> Options
-> Filters -> Add, and fill in the "Add Message Filter" form.

Re: viewing email in public .. !!! or using it but not viewing

On 1 Mar, 15:32, Frank Slootweg wrote:
> jameshanle...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
>
> [deleted]
>
> > I suppose a
> > nice solution would be if a filter drops it in the folder I want. I
> > could then put some string like *_* in the subject of my email and
> > it'll go to that folder instead of inbox. Then I only view that
> > folder.
>
> Then why don't you do exactly that, i.e. use a Filter? Mail -> Options
> -> Filters -> Add, and fill in the "Add Message Filter" form.

that's ideal, thanks. I just set that up now. I had looked for that
prior to writing but I hadn't found it.

Re: viewing email in public .. !!! or using it but not viewing

On 1 Mar, 10:32, Landmark wrote:
> "jameshanle...@yahoo.co.uk" wrote:
> >The weakness is that I won't see the contents of the email I sent
> >myself. To know and verify. ....
>
> Maybe I'm misunderstanding your requirements, but why don't you set up
> an account at Hotmail or Yahoo or somewhere which you use only for the
> purpose of this testing? Then you can open the inbox etc without
> worrying about there being any other mails in there.

well, I don't want yet another email address, and also, if I access
my email from another account then they say they want to send me an
email, i've then got to explain to them to use a different email
address.
Checkign my email at the address that they'd be sending me an email
(if they did want to send me an email) saves me from a boring and
possibly awkward explanation.

Re: viewing email in public .. !!! or using it but not viewing

In news:1172784846.929930.69590@30g2000cwc.googlegroups.com,
jameshanley39@yahoo.co.uk wrote:

>>> The weakness is that I won't see the contents of the email I sent
>>> myself. To know and verify. ....
>>
>> Maybe I'm misunderstanding your requirements, but why don't you set
>> up an account at Hotmail or Yahoo or somewhere which you use only
>> for the purpose of this testing? Then you can open the inbox etc
>> without worrying about there being any other mails in there.
>
> well, I don't want yet another email address, and also, if I access
> my email from another account then they say they want to send me an
> email, i've then got to explain to them to use a different email
> address.
> Checkign my email at the address that they'd be sending me an email
> (if they did want to send me an email) saves me from a boring and
> possibly awkward explanation.

I've *never* heard a bigger bunch of bullshit in my entire life.