ESI /characters/{character_id}/mail/ can't send mail to yourself?

EVE Technology and Research Center Third Party Developers
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I’m working on a simple app and I’ve run into a strange problem. Whilst I can send an evemail to the corporation, it appears when I try to send it to myself it never arrives:
For example,

mail = {‘approved_cost’:10000, ‘body’:body, ‘subject’:subject, ‘recipients’:[{‘recipient_id’:my_corp_id ‘recipient_type’:‘corporation’}]}

The above works fine, whereas:

mail = {‘approved_cost’:10000, ‘body’:body, ‘subject’:subject, ‘recipients’:[{‘recipient_id’:my_character_id, ‘recipient_type’:‘character’}]}

Does not work as the evemail never arrives, even though I get a Mail ID in the response. I’ve checked my CSPA settings and it’s set to 0 so I’m a bit confused.

EDIT: Further testing reveals that I receive the mails fine in the Android app, except I don’t get a notification. I still don’t get either a notification or a mail in the EVE game client though? Bizarre.

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Mails sent to yourself will never generate notifications for the current client session. If you log out and log back in, you’ll receive it.

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Ah gotcha, thanks. Was trying to figure out a nice way of notifying me in-game of market things, but I guess evemail isn’t going to work.

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Just use a random alt you rarely log in as the sender.

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