Replying to deleted messages

[Goutam Nath]

I have configured GMail to delete messages once they are accessed by
POP, so there is this message which I had received about 2 weeks back
and already downloaded to my home computer, now I am in office and I
went into Trash to reply to it, after having replied I find that the
copy of the reply is in Trash instead of Sent Items, is this behaviour
normal? Isn't it supposed to be in Sent Items?

[Marko Vukovic]

In conversation view this is normal behaviour. Gmail applies the label to the conversation, not individual messages.

Why would you trash a message that you want to reply to?

If you are using an external POP client that deletes after fetching, I would suggest using IMAP instead. This will keep your mail client and Gmail in sync, and you will be able to see your labels as folders.

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[Andy]

I think what's happening is that you have the reply (with "Sent Mail"
system label attached to it), and the original (with "Trash" system
label attached to it), and the two messages are interlinked by way of
being in the same conversation. Thus, the conversation still appears
in your "Trash". It would have shown up in "Sent Mail" too ... except
for the fact that it is in "Trash". Conversations in "Trash" and
"Spam" are excluded from all other views, including "All Mail" and
"Sent Mail".

I think you could move the conversation from Trash to the Inbox, then
open that conversation and delete just the original message (moving it
back to Trash), which should leave your reply by itself in the Inbox
and visible in "Sent Mail" too. If that's what you wanted.

I don't know if this is just a question of curiosity, or if you are
trying to do something differently. If all you want is for your reply
to not be in the Trash, the easiest way would be to change the Subject
line when you reply (so that it is no longer grouped with the original
message).

Marko, I could be wrong, but I don't think Gmail applies labels to
conversations. It seems to apply them to individual messages, but we
only see them grouped into conversations, which makes it appear as if
the label applies to the entire conversation (unless you turn
Conversation View off). But I've been wrong plenty of times before.

Andy

[Kenneth Ayers]

That's the problem with conversation view.  Things aren't what they seem.

The email that you didn't expect to see in your trash probably isn't really in your trash.  But if at least one of the emails in that conversation is in the trash then you can view all of the emails for that conversation while viewing the trash. 

Try toggling conversation view off temporarily in the settings and then you can see which emails really have been trashed.

Kenneth