diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d296d77..0e62c69 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -182,10 +182,11 @@ whitespace!
 This bit is still extremely janky; it should instead be a magic channel type or
 action button of some kind. It is, however, functional.
 
-Delta wants us to enable the "Send copy to self" option in settings, but that
-isn't exposed in padfoot yet, so messages you send from padfoot won't appear in
-other clients. Messages from other clients won't appear either, because messages
-from yourself are mostly ingnored by padfoot. Still, it's progress.
+Delta wants us to enable the "Send copy to self" option in settings. That's
+exposed as "Bcc self" in the advanced options in Empathy. Once enabled, messages
+you send via Padfoot will appear in other clients. However, messages you send
+from other clients don't appear in Padfoot yet because it mostly ignores self
+messages as a dirty hack to avoid double-showing messages. Progess though.
 
 ### Autogenerated telepathy DBUS bindings
 
diff --git a/share/telepathy/managers/padfoot.manager b/share/telepathy/managers/padfoot.manager
index 3982731..4f35814 100644
--- a/share/telepathy/managers/padfoot.manager
+++ b/share/telepathy/managers/padfoot.manager
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ ObjectPath=/org/freedesktop/Telepathy/ConnectionManager/padfoot
 [Protocol delta]
 param-account=s required
 param-password=s required secret
+param-bcc-self=b
 status-available=2 settable
 status-offline = 1 settable
 
diff --git a/src/padfoot/connection.rs b/src/padfoot/connection.rs
index 72b7440..f8b7466 100644
--- a/src/padfoot/connection.rs
+++ b/src/padfoot/connection.rs
@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ pub struct Connection {
 pub struct ConnSettings {
     account: String,
     password: String,
+    bcc_self: bool,
     id: String,
 }
 
@@ -100,9 +101,24 @@ impl ConnSettings {
             None => return err,
         };
 
+        let bcc_self = match params.get("bcc-self") {
+            Some(variant) => match variant.0.as_u64() {
+                Some(i) => i != 0,
+                None => {
+                    println!("0!");
+                    return err;
+                }
+            },
+            None => {
+                println!("1!");
+                false
+            }
+        };
+
         Ok(Self {
             account,
             password,
+            bcc_self,
             id,
         })
     }
@@ -211,8 +227,14 @@ impl Connection {
             .map_err(|_e| MethodErr::no_arg())?;
         ctx.set_config(Config::MailPw, Some(&settings.password))
             .map_err(|_e| MethodErr::no_arg())?;
-        ctx.set_config(Config::SentboxWatch, Some(&"Sent"))
-            .map_err(|_e| MethodErr::no_arg())?;
+
+        if settings.bcc_self {
+            ctx.set_config(Config::BccSelf, Some(&"1"))
+                .map_err(|_e| MethodErr::no_arg())?;
+        } else {
+            ctx.set_config(Config::BccSelf, Some(&"0"))
+                .map_err(|_e| MethodErr::no_arg())?;
+        }
 
         if !ctx.is_configured() {
             ctx.configure();
diff --git a/src/padfoot/protocol.rs b/src/padfoot/protocol.rs
index 566ee89..82dfcde 100644
--- a/src/padfoot/protocol.rs
+++ b/src/padfoot/protocol.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-use crate::padfoot::{var_str, var_u32, VarArg};
+use crate::padfoot::{var_bool, var_str, var_u32, VarArg};
 use crate::telepathy;
 
 use dbus::tree::MethodErr;
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ pub fn parameters() -> Vec<ParamSpec> {
             "s".to_string(),
             var_str("".to_string()),
         ),
+        ("bcc-self".to_string(), 0, "b".to_string(), var_bool(false)),
     ]
 }