Gmail normally stores outgoing messages in Sent only. However, you can use a filter to make your sent messages also appear in your Inbox as read emails.

Create the filter

  1. Open Gmail and go to Settings → See all settings.
  2. Select Filters and blocked addresses.
  3. Click Create a new filter.
  4. In the From field, enter your email domain—for example:

    yahwho.org

  5. Click Create filter.
  6. Select Never send it to Spam.
  7. Click Create filter again.

New messages sent from an address on that domain will now appear in both Sent and the Inbox. They are not duplicate emails: Gmail applies both the Sent and Inbox labels to the same message.

To disable this behaviour, delete the filter. Existing sent messages can be removed from the Inbox using Archive; they will remain available in Sent.

Note

This appears to be a long-standing Gmail quirk rather than a formally documented feature, so Google may change the behaviour in the future.