Allow email recipient list to contain oneself

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In the Canvas mail system, you can't add yourself as a recipient
of an email. I like to do this to see what the message looks like to the
students, and would like to be able to send it to my university address,
not just a Canvas inbox. I can't even do the latter.   I am told
it is good enough that it exists in my Sent mail, but I disagree.

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Stef_retired
Instructure Alumni
Instructure Alumni
Status changed to: Archived

@Robert_Bruner 

You'll be happy to know that this is existing functionality, and so we've archived the idea. Users who have enabled the 'Conversations Created By Me' permission in their user settings will receive a copy of the message they sent in their external notifications. Please read through  How do I set my Canvas notification preferences as...

Thanks!

Robert_Bruner
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Thanks!