Gmail hides a test you send yourself
Use Send test to watch an alias forward to Gmail, which keeps an email you sent yourself out of your inbox.
Updated 29 October 2026
You wrote from amina.kone@gmail.com to amina@lunavera.com, which forwards to it, and nothing new arrived.
Gmail already has that email in Sent. It keeps the forwarded copy out of the inbox.
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Use Send test on the alias#
Open Domains, choose your domain, and stay on the Forwarding tab. Select Send test (the paper plane) on the alias’s row. The test comes from a Mailyoto address, not from your Gmail account. Gmail has no copy of it in Sent.
Send test doesn’t appear on paused or pattern aliases. For those, write to the alias from an account that isn’t one of its destinations, such as a work account.
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Find the test in the inbox#
Its subject is “Test reached” followed by the alias’s address. If it isn’t in the inbox, look in Spam.
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Check its entry in Logs#
Open Logs and find the test. Delivered means Gmail accepted it. If the entry says Failed, open it with Show details to read Gmail’s response, then see Email is not arriving.
What Mailyoto does with an email you sent yourself#
Mailyoto forwards it unchanged, to your Gmail inbox and to every other destination of the alias. Its entry in Logs carries a note saying it came from the Gmail inbox Mailyoto forwarded it to. The first time this happens on your account, Mailyoto sends you 1 email about it. Email from anyone else arrives in the inbox as usual.
The Send test email is in Spam
Mark it as not spam. To keep email to the alias out of Spam, create a Gmail filter.