Thanks to the people who responded. Checking again this morning, I see that the last Group email I sent out actually *is* in my Trash - so I was just very careless when I checked for that email earlier. The tip that these Group emails are automatically put in Trash, but they are not stored in Sent Mail, Starred, Important, Drafts, etc.... as Zack says, that doesn't seem to make sense, but it helps a lot to know that's the way Gmail handles self-made Group mails. I'll be much more careful about checking Trash in the future.
Trying to answer the questions in those replies - I "delete" these group messages for the same reason I "delete" most other group messages. I get about 70-100 email messages a day (not a lot by the standards of many people, but still quite a few). If I left all of them on my Gmail Inbox, in a couple of days they'd be buried. If I'm pretty sure I'll want to re-read a message within a week or so, I *do* keep it in the Inbox. That way, there are only 20-30 older messages in the Inbox which accumulate over a couple of weeks, and I can find the one I want easily. Once in a long while, I belatedly realize that I want to refer back to an email which I initially thought I wouldn't need again. Unless it was an email to a Group I made, I can find those in Sent Mail, All Mail, Drafts, Important - etc. Messages which I want to keep for a very long time, months or longer, I Move to Archived Mail, where I file them under one (or more) of several subcategories. I'm positive that I didn't accidentally empty the Trash, as such. All the other Trash is there. But now I know that I have to be much more careful about checking Trash on the few occasions when I need to go back to a Group email I've sent. Bill On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 6:38 AM, Andy <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 8:01 PM, billhansen <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Several times a year I need to make a Gmail Group, to send the same email >> to several people at once. I do this by using my own Gmail address in the >> To: line, with BCCs to all the other members of the group - so other group >> members don't see each other's email addresses. That works well, except >> that once the email is sent, it disappears from my own Gmail account. >> Others get the group email without difficulty, and I get my copy. So far, >> so good. But once I am finished with my copy and put it into the Trash, it >> disappears completely. It's not in Trash, not in All Mail, not in Sent >> mail. >> > >> This has happened with three of these small Gmail Groups, a total of >> about 40 to 50 emails, over a time period of a year or more. >> >> Is there a fix for this, or is it a feature of Gmail? >> > > I could be wrong, but I don't see why this would be related to a contact > Group. Once you type the Group, it turns into a bunch of individual > addresses, so it's no different than entering those addresses separately. > > Why are you deleting your copy of the message? Why delete something you > don't want deleted? > > Is there any chance you hit the Empty Trash link? > > Andy > > > -- > 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/d/optout. > -- 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/d/optout.
