After using gmail for a bit, I noticed that some of my Sent emails were no longer under the "Sent" label and had been deleted!
WTF? Well, the reason is that when a Sent email becomes part of a Conversation and you Delete the conversation, the Sent email becomes labeled Trash .. and goes away after a month. (Remember, there is only one copy of an email even tho it seems to be under one or more Labels, and some of the labels are special: Trash, Sent, All
So Archive fixes the problem, sorta:
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/04/9-reasons-to-archive.html
.. just never delete, and always archive. More gist for Google's mill, I guess.
But the problem then becomes that your Sent label is not just your sent email, but any answer/conversation that email is involved with.
So does anyone have a solution for having a Label that is JUST the email you send?
-- Owen
PS: If most folks dont understand any of this, dont worry .. but remember if you move to Gmail, you may be stung by its not-obvious and definitely non standard architecture.
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