Hi all TB users, I have 2 gmail accounts. One for mailing lists, online transactions, ...etc, and one for family members to send me email to.
On the account used for family, I send emails to someone, and then I check in the Sent folder. I do not see the message I just sent.
So thought perhaps I deleted the message from the Sent folder by accidental mistake.
So, I check the trash folder. Not there. I only empty the trash folder about once in a blue moon, just in case I deleted something by mistake. The message I just sent is not there either.
This is the listing of the directory /home/jd/.thunderbird/Name-Removed-by-me/Mail/pop.googlemail.com
$ ll total 3095676K -rw------- 1 jd jd 0 Jun 20 2013 Archives -rw------- 1 jd jd 1416 Mar 13 12:01 Archives.msf -rw------- 1 jd jd 6019464 Mar 13 11:55 Drafts -rw------- 1 jd jd 2789 Mar 13 12:08 Drafts.msf -rw------- 1 jd jd 80 Mar 26 2013 filterlog.html -rw------- 1 jd jd i 17998105 Mar 13 11:16 Inbox -rw------- 1 jd jd 2314278 Mar 13 12:08 Inbox.msf -rw------- 1 jd jd 3651674 Feb 3 15:45 Junk -rw------- 1 jd jd 19224 Mar 13 11:59 Junk.msf -rw------- 1 jd jd 47403 Jan 2 08:07 mantras -rw------- 1 jd jd 210 Mar 26 2013 msgFilterRules.dat -rw------- 1 jd jd 15977772 Mar 26 2013 Photos -rw------- 1 jd jd 61 Mar 13 11:25 popstate.dat -rw------- 1 jd jd 51636090 Mar 13 11:55 Sent -rw------- 1 jd jd 832495 Mar 13 12:02 Sent.msf -rw------- 1 jd jd 20251 Aug 13 2014 temp -rw------- 1 jd jd 71341945 Mar 13 11:16 Trash -rw------- 1 jd jd 49204 Mar 13 11:59 Trash.msf
What is interesting, this problem does not manifest in the jd1008 account's directory.
If you need more info on the account settings, please let me know.
On 03/13/2015 11:11 AM, jd1008 wrote:
On the account used for family, I send emails to someone, and then I check in the Sent folder. I do not see the message I just sent.
Go to Edit->Account Settings. Select the account and look at Copies and Folders. If you haven't set TB to keep a copy of each outgoing message it doesn't. It Just Goes Away.
On 03/13/2015 02:11 PM, jd1008 wrote:
Hi all TB users, I have 2 gmail accounts. One for mailing lists, online transactions, ...etc, and one for family members to send me email to.
On the account used for family, I send emails to someone, and then I check in the Sent folder. I do not see the message I just sent.\
This is standard practice on gmail. Don't know why you see your post on the other account. Just one more reason not to use gmail.
--doug
On Fri, 2015-03-13 at 19:19 -0400, Doug wrote:
On 03/13/2015 02:11 PM, jd1008 wrote:
Hi all TB users, I have 2 gmail accounts. One for mailing lists, online transactions, ...etc, and one for family members to send me email to.
On the account used for family, I send emails to someone, and then I check in the Sent folder. I do not see the message I just sent.\
This is standard practice on gmail. Don't know why you see your post on the other account. Just one more reason not to use gmail.
I can't make out what you are saying is standard practice nor why you disagree with it.
poc
On 03/13/2015 01:16 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 03/13/2015 11:11 AM, jd1008 wrote:
On the account used for family, I send emails to someone, and then I check in the Sent folder. I do not see the message I just sent.
Go to Edit->Account Settings. Select the account and look at Copies and Folders. If you haven't set TB to keep a copy of each outgoing message it doesn't. It Just Goes Away.
All of the items under copies and folders (sent, archives, drafts and templates), are being saved in <myusername>@gmail.com
so are those in the account jd1008.
Disk space is hugely available, and the Sent folder is still way below 4GB.
On 03/14/2015 06:22 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Fri, 2015-03-13 at 19:19 -0400, Doug wrote:
On 03/13/2015 02:11 PM, jd1008 wrote:
Hi all TB users, I have 2 gmail accounts. One for mailing lists, online transactions, ...etc, and one for family members to send me email to.
On the account used for family, I send emails to someone, and then I check in the Sent folder. I do not see the message I just sent.\
This is standard practice on gmail. Don't know why you see your post on the other account. Just one more reason not to use gmail.
I can't make out what you are saying is standard practice nor why you disagree with it.
poc
Ditto....!! I have no idea where Doug is coming from. Prior Experience with TB?? I already indicated this is happening on only one of 2 accounts.
On 03/14/2015 03:45 PM, jd1008 wrote:
All of the items under copies and folders (sent, archives, drafts and templates), are being saved in <myusername>@gmail.com
so are those in the account jd1008.
It gets very hard to interpret support requests when you redact the pertinent information.
If all of the items are being saved under "jd1008 @ gmail" then you'd look for mail that you've sent from either account in the same Sent folder.
If that's not what you want, then select your Name-Removed-by-me account, make sure that the option to "Place a copy" of your sent mail is checked, and then select whatever folder you want to store mail for that account.
On 03/17/2015 03:58 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote:
On 03/14/2015 03:45 PM, jd1008 wrote:
All of the items under copies and folders (sent, archives, drafts and templates), are being saved in <myusername>@gmail.com
so are those in the account jd1008.
It gets very hard to interpret support requests when you redact the pertinent information.
If all of the items are being saved under "jd1008 @ gmail" then you'd look for mail that you've sent from either account in the same Sent folder.
If that's not what you want, then select your Name-Removed-by-me account, make sure that the option to "Place a copy" of your sent mail is checked, and then select whatever folder you want to store mail for that account.
You misunderstood. I meant that account jd1008, all folder are under jd11008@gmail.com Other account's folders are under <other>@gmail.com
Hope this clarifies it for you.
On 03/17/2015 04:06 PM, jd1008 wrote:
If that's not what you want, then select your Name-Removed-by-me account, make sure that the option to "Place a copy" of your sent mail is checked, and then select whatever folder you want to store mail for that account.
You misunderstood. I meant that account jd1008, all folder are under jd11008@gmail.com Other account's folders are under <other>@gmail.com
OK, then set the folder where you want messages stored. If it's not working as expected, try setting a custom location.
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