I haven't had the loss of sent email problem (that I know of) but I did run across the same problem of the attachment not being visible. There's an icon showing that there was an attachment but there's no attachment at the bottom. Anyone find help for this problem?
On Tuesday, November 13, 2012 4:44:06 AM UTC-8, JohnW wrote: > > Reg B., > Given the fact that you actually 'write' your e-mail text on the Gmail > server (with a local display thereof) [*when you are online!]*, any > temporary loss of your network connectivity shouldn't affect whether the > message is sent or not *provided the instruction to Send is received* by > the server. > The act of pressing Send causes the 'Sent Mail' label to be attached to > the (now stored) message and the Gmail server does the rest. > A temporary loss of network connectivity might possibly affect what you > see (when looking for those sent messages): perhaps what you're seeing is a > cached copy rather than the real thing - but from experience I'd say the > most likely thing is that you have some filter(s) that may be behaving in a > way you're not expecting (rather than actually 'misbehaving'!!). > Your comment regards "seems centred around Bcc" intrigues: do you have > some function set up to cause 'something' to occur regards Bcc-ing yourself > perhaps? > Again, Bcc is carried out by the Gmail servers - rather than any other > hardware - and for most Gmail users the function works perfectly: the > 'implication' must be that something else is affecting this function for > you, be it intermittently or not! > > Hope this helps, anyway. > > On Saturday, 29 September 2012 15:53:52 UTC+1, Reg B. wrote: >> >> *Hi Guys... Im having the same issues.* >> * >> * >> >> - *This is sending emails from my laptop* >> - *im using chrome * >> - *I press send* >> - *The email disappears after pressing send* >> - *Nothing is in sent items or anywhere.* >> - *Sometimes ive sent the same email 3 or more times and each time >> ... zipf! gone* >> - *Its a problem that seems centered around BCC for me* >> - *Its just intermittent I cannot predict when it happens* >> - *I wonder if its my net connection which can be problematic for a >> couple seconds dropout at times and when i press send theres just no >> internet connect and therefore the email just simply vanishes.* >> >> >> On Friday, 6 April 2012 08:31:58 UTC+8, billhansen wrote: >>> >>> I've noticed that occasionally, one or more of the emails I sent >>> through Gmail disappears. It never makes its way to theSent Mail part >>> of Gmail, or anywhere else as far as I can tell. The intended >>> recipients do receive the mail, but I have no copy of the mail I've >>> sent. >>> >>> Also, attachments, or filenames of attachments, never appear in Sent >>> Mail on any email I send through Gmail. Sometimes there will be an >>> ideogram of a paper clip, indicating that there was an attachment, but >>> there's no indication of file name or other identification of which >>> attachment was sent. On other mails which were sent with attachments, >>> the copy which goes to Sent Mail doesn't even have a paper clip >>> ideogram, or any other indication that there was an attachment to the >>> original email. The recipients do get the attachments (as far as I can >>> tell), but I have no way to check back on which attachments I've sent >>> to whom. >>> >>> I assume this is just another in the list of shortcomings of Gmail, >>> but I'm hoping that someone in the group will know of a way to recover >>> those lost Sent mails - and maybe there's even a way to identify >>> which files were originaly attached to any emails sent through Gmail. >>> It seems like a very major shortcoming of a mail program, not to have >>> any indication of which files were attached to Sent emails. >>> >>> Any info on these would be very helpful - even if people just confirm >>> that this is a shortcoming we all have to live with, if we're going to >>> use Gmail. >>> >>> Thanks - Bill Hansen >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
