# ESI /characters/{character\_id}/mail/ can't send mail to yourself?

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**Category:** Third Party Developers\
**Created:** [August 5, 2018, 12:52pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/esi-characters-character-id-mail-cant-send-mail-to-yourself/95545 "2018-08-05T12:52:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Smeg\_BlasterFart](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/smeg_blasterfart/32/58961_2.png) [@Smeg\_BlasterFart](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Smeg_BlasterFart)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2018, 12:52pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/esi-characters-character-id-mail-cant-send-mail-to-yourself/95545/1 "2018-08-05T12:52:49Z")

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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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**Author:** ![Krysenth](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/krysenth/32/58194_2.png) [@Krysenth](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Krysenth)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2018, 10:10am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/esi-characters-character-id-mail-cant-send-mail-to-yourself/95545/2 "2018-08-06T10:10:50Z")

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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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**Author:** ![Smeg\_BlasterFart](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/smeg_blasterfart/32/58961_2.png) [@Smeg\_BlasterFart](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Smeg_BlasterFart)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2018, 4:49am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/esi-characters-character-id-mail-cant-send-mail-to-yourself/95545/3 "2018-08-09T04:49:23Z")

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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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**Author:** ![Krysenth](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/krysenth/32/58194_2.png) [@Krysenth](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Krysenth)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2018, 8:46am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/esi-characters-character-id-mail-cant-send-mail-to-yourself/95545/4 "2018-08-09T08:46:10Z")

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> [@Smeg\_BlasterFart](#):
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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.

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

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/4/1/41ec4921cbaca7a6f9ea556e7cc20018461eae5e.png) [@system](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 8:46am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/esi-characters-character-id-mail-cant-send-mail-to-yourself/95545/5 "2018-11-07T08:46:15Z")

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