See also related
http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1306
http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=356
http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1226

I have some proposals and would like to receive your comments:

Currently, e-mail user ( Special:Emailuser/Username ) shows _one_ "Send" button.

• I propose to show a _second_ button
  
  "Send with copy back to me" ***

Thus, the overhead for an additional user option can avoided.

Unfortunately, there is a) a potential privacy problem and b) a potential
spamfilter problem:

a) We cannot use TO:Username BCC:sendername(=me), because this would reveal the
sendername address to "me".
b) If we use TO:sendername(=me) BCC:Username, and Username has a strong
Spamfilter, this could prevent the BCC mail arriving in "Username"'s postbox.

An ad-hoc solution of both problems: let he Wikimailer send _two_ mails:

one mail TO:Username and a
second mail TO:sendername(=me) .

But we must indicate in the mail (to me), to whom it was sent !
The only idea I have at the momenet is:

to add a direct link to the wiki userpage User:Username in the mail body,

perhaps with an additional text

"You have sent this mail to http://....../User:Username

Did I explain the issue concise enough ?
Has anyone a better proposal ?

Pls. can you post your ideas or "support" ?
Or perhaps better: someone of you Developers implements it before I do it - with
the consequence of complaints about my non-style of programming ;-)

Angela and Timwi supports the implementation of "sending a cc to sender".

wiki.bugzilla wrote:

This is a very reasonable idea. The function is often requested by many users.
I really wonder how this bug could stay here for such a long time, apparently
unregarded ;-) Anyway, it could be seen as a fairly effective control if an email
was delivered successfully (at least with a high plausibility).

For Wikimedia projects this feature request should, of course and due to privacy
matters, be implemented as BCC, not as CC, because many users want to send an
email, but don't want to reveal their email address at the first contact.

Please consider to combine the implementation of such a checkbox with bug 832.

wiki.bluefish wrote:

reclamation: your own email adress is revealed in every case you send an email
with the this function. just try. ;-)

(In reply to comment #4)

reclamation: your own email adress is revealed in every case you send an email
with the this function. just try. ;-)

Can be changed similar, as it is implemented for email notifications: all
"EmailUser" mails need to come from the pseudo user FROM: "WikiAdmin <address>".

The two emails, one to recipient, and the copy to sender need probably to be
sent out separately to avoid revealing of addresses.

No, it's quite deliberate that the from address is included. Using the wiki to
anonymously e-mail bomb people is not welcome, and this will not ever be added as a
feature.

However the *to* address is kept hidden from the sender, so that the recipient has the
option of revealing his/her address (by responding) or not. A simple BCC/CC on the
message to the sender would reveal the recipient's address.

(In reply to comment #7)

However the *to* address is kept hidden from the sender, so that the recipient

has the

option of revealing his/her address (by responding) or not. A simple BCC/CC on

the

message to the sender would reveal the recipient's address.

and what's your proposal for a solution ?

robchur wrote:

Leave it to the leprechauns!

lar wrote:

I'd love to see this implemented somehow, I often find that I want a copy of
what I told someone else, and it's better to have it come from the server than
to have to remember to paste the text in somewhere and send it again or
whatever... I fully support the notion that the email address of the sender (the
from address) is revealed to the recepient. If i understand the issue here
though, the email address of the recepient (the to address) would be revealed if
it was done as a cc on the same mail. Could that be resolved by generating a
second mail to the receipient that just showed the wiki username that it was
sent to and did not show the actual email address?

Alternatively (I don't know if this would be easier to program or not) the copy
sent to yourself could be shown with your email address in both from: and to:
fields, with the subject changed from "Wikipedia email" to "Wikipedia email to
User:<username>", e.g.

From: myemail@example.com
to: myemail@example.com
replyto: myemail@example.com
Subject: Wikipedia email to User:Example

I've seen this method used by several mass mailer programs to hide the address
of the sender. If a different email is required for the replyto: field, just set
up a single email address that dumps everthing to /dev/null à la Spamcop's
"statistical tracking" email addresses.

lar wrote:

That would work for me too. As long as it were something that let it be known
that you sent a mail to so and so. Not for evidence etc, that can be forged, but
for convenience, it's good to get copies of things you send, just so you know
what you said. I'm not too sussed about exactly how it's achieved.

nickpj wrote:

Hopefully fixed in r17368.

Great to see the new option now in dewiki, enwiki, mediawiki