Mail disppeared from "Sent" mail

I'm using Mozilla Thunderbird with Windows XP. I was trying to close
the mail and it wouldn't shut down so I hit the X to close, a couple
more times. The window finally shut down, but when I opened the mail
later and wanted to check on some sent mail, there wasn't any in the
"Sent" box. When selecting "Sent" it would operate as "Get Mail"
with the words in the status bar that indicate that I was trying to
retrieve new mail. I sent a post to see if it would go to sent mail
and it didn't. What can I do to resolve this?

I'm thinking about going back to Outlook Express. Will I be able to
transfer the mail that I still have in my local folders?

Thanks,
Jo

 

Check under Local Folders.

Thunderbird has the capability, under your Account settings, to pick
locations to store files. See where yours are set to store.

Why would you want to return to the 20th century?

Probably not... OE wouldn't know how to read them.

Do you know you're several releases behind? 1.0.2 ... why not update to
1.5.

 

I went to local folders>account settings>copies & folders. The box
for "Place a copy in: 'Sent' folder on local folder" is checked. But
the copies aren't going there. If I click "Sent" once, the status bar
says "No matches found." If I click it twice it acts as "Get Mail" as
I mentioned previously. In the copy/folder window, drafts and
templates are selected. I have a draft folder but no template folder.
What is a template?

As to updating, I did find a place to choose "update" and it said
there were no updates. Could you please explain what you mean by
'releases.'

Why would I go back to OE? I didn't have things like this happen.
Also there is an "Unsent Messages" in local folders. Nothing ever
goes there. When I'm offline and send an e-mail I have to hit 'send'
and then close and have it go to the draft folder. With OE,unsent
mail automatically went when I got on the Internet. And when I hit
'send' the mail went immediately. With MT, there is a green bar that
shows the mail is going, and if I'm sending pictures or long forwards,
the sending seems to take forever for each post. With OE, short or
long, they went right away.

Thanks,
Jo

 

Why did you go to local folders>account settings>copies and folders?

For after you're dead.

'But the copies are not going there' is an excuse. Excuses are
unacceptable.

Itth myth speetthch slurrererrred????

If a man speaks in the forest, and his wife isn't there, is he still
wrong?

And wipe that smile off your face.

Really? You have a draft folder but no template folder?

What do we care, right?

Have to make a difficult choice, huh?

I meant exactly what was written. What you say it means is as irrelevant
as you are.

Good, I didn't have things like that happen either.

There's no one else for that.

Ever hear of a vacation?

You mean you would like to hit 'send' and then close and have it go to
the draft folder?

Was there life before the net?

You sure?

WARNING: Consumption of alcohol is a major factor in dancing like an
idiot.

They want to be able to control their destiny.

Thank you for taking that philosophically.

Shit head.

So, you have no problem looking like a complete tit on usenet then?

Authentic hatchet. Authentic hatchet. Do you know what 'Authentic
hatchet.' means? Real axe. Get it? ('RELAX.')

It could be worse; you could be psychotic. It could be better; you could
be suicidal.

Are you worried about your privacy?

 

If you only have one email ID, that may be ok. I have about nine IDs set
up, and they each save their received and sent mail in folders under
each ID.

No matches? You may have some sort of filter set to only show you mail
containing some particular text, or a particular sender's email address.

In the View: dropdown box, set it to "All"
You seem to be hiding what is stored.

You shouldn't be double-clicking a folder name.

Sounds about right.

Only worth consideration if you stoop so low as to send HTML emails. [1]

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=template&db=*

2. Computer Science.
1. A document or file having a preset format, used as a starting
point for a particular application so that the format does not have to
be recreated each time it is used.

Version 1.0.1
Version 1.0.2
Version 1.5

There are some security updates in the newer versions. Go to the Mozilla
web site, download the setup file for 1.5, save it in your favorite
downloads place, then execute it. It will update your current
installation, without futzing with your profile and current mail.

You need a bit more experience with the new program.

I'd personally rather have it wait until *I* was ready to send. When I
go on the 'net, I may want to do something else first.

Forever? Hummph. Don't know why that would occur. Mine send quickly once
I activate the Send.

"long forwards?" Hopefully, if you are one of those who forwards jokes
and stuff to "everyone you know", you are putting all the addresses in
the BCC: field, to protect the privacy of these recipients.

Really. Thunderbird is a better email client than the ancient OE.

[1] HTML is for web pages; Plain Text is for email.

 

Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:

I'm snipping parts of your/my post to the pertinent parts.

I have three filters in place, one to a group to which I belong, so
that its mail goes to a file under local files, and 2 names that get
deleted. No other filters.

I did this. What is it supposed to do? "Sent" continues to be empty.

I don't understand re: preset format, etc.

I'll check on this, but when you say, "save it in your favorite
downloads place, then execute it" I don't know where to save. I don't
download stuff, just mail. The updates that I get. automatically
download so I don't have to save and execute.

Forever? Hummph. Don't know why that would occur. Mine send quickly once

Yes, I do the BCC and also delete all the addresses before sending
forwards. I loathe the "pass-on" forwards and usually delete without
reading. But I send jokes, but not to everyone I know---I choose who
I think might appreciate it. There are some, however, that go to
quite a few people and when that list is long, the green bar tells
what percent of the message is gone, and I can't do anything while
that is going on. And a few times there were some wonderful pictures
which *did* seem to take forever.

 

Beauregard!!! My sent mail came in. The "All" that did the trick was
Edit>Select>All. Thank you!!! But please, I'd still like to know
about downloading and saving and executing.

Thanks,
Jo

 

Me too.

Here, I think you are detailing incoming mail filters. These would not
be pertinent to seeing mail in the Sent folder.

I did reference the dropdown that is normally just above the Subject
line in the mail headers pane. Is this what you found?

A cookie cutter in the bakery department is a sort of template. You
press it into the dough and get a shape, then bake a cookie that looks
just like the cutter.

You make up a mail template, store it, and then when you want to create
an outgoing mail that looks the same, you open it from the Template
folder and "press" a new mail with all those same settings, rather than
recreating from scratch each time. As said, this is really only useful
if you use HTML mail.

A business may want to send periodic mail with the same layout each
time. A template would be used, and you then only need to fill in the
content part.

Make a new folder using Windows Explorer. Name it "Downloads"
Go to the Thunderbird link, choose to grab the latest version, and when
the dialog window opens, navigate to this new folder, and click Save.
Once saved, close the browser, go back to this folder and double-click
the new .exe file.

If you don't know how to make new folders, you could download the new
file right to the Desktop, then delete it after the installation process
is complete. But you should learn how to make and manage folders.
(Folders is a Windows term; they are actually directories.)

Until the newest release of Thunderbird, the updating process requires
grabbing the whole new .exe file. Once you are on 1.5, there will be
incremental updates.

Good for you. So many people neglect to do that step.

Well, whoohoo!

Regarding the View: dropdown box above the headers pane, what was it set
to prior to this? The choices are: All, Unread, Important, Work ... and
so on. If this was set to Unread, then you would only see messages that
haven't been opened yet, and Sent messages are "opened" by default,
because you have already "read" them (as you created them).

 

Under Headers the only choices were All and Normal. It was set to
Normal and after your first post I changed it to All. What happened
with that is that when opening a post, the screen filled up with a lot
of computer lingo. When the sent mail showed up, I set it back to
Normal---and the posts got back to normal.

Thanks for the template info---guess I won't have to use that.

I'll try that tomorrow---I'm up way too late now.

Thanks to you!

As I said, View>Headers gave only Normal or All to choose, The
choices you mention (All, Unread, etc.) are under View>Messages. Maybe
that is where I changed to All and not in Edit>Select. But in the
finagling around I left the inbox on the screen, and it finally dawned
on me that I should have the sent mail screen open while going to the
dropdown. And that is when it finally worked. So I think your
assessment about Unread is correct. That is what I probably changed,
and thought it was Edit/Select that did the trick because that is the
last thing I did. And nothing got selected because there was nothing
there. By now I'm so confused with whatall I did. So thank you so
very much. I appreciate your taking the time to think this out with me.

Jo

 

Um. You are looking on the main menu, at the very top of the window. I
have been talking about the .. well, in Windows language, it's really
called a "combobox" and is in the area underneath the big toolbar.

See: http://k75s.home.att.net/show/tbirddropdown.jpg

It's a "field" looking selection choice, with a small down-arrow at the
right end of it. The word "View:" is just to the left of it, and it is
just above the "Subject" column of mail headers. It should be in the
same row as the search box, which is over to the right.

I think Unread was the default setting, but it's been so long I don't
remember ...

 

Aha! Now I know what you're talking about! *I didn't have a search
bar!* I went to each file to see what was set for each one and
changed a few. I had done the settings for the Inbox and didn't
realize that choices could be made for each folder. Until sent mail
hid its mail, I was ok with it all. I went from folder to folder
looking for the search bar and with "View." I finally
found it by going to Toolbars and Search Bar wasn't selected. I
checked it off and lo-and-behold, there was the search bar, just like
you showed in your sample. In the Sent folder, the drop down in your
sample was the same as for View>Messages, so I had gotten to the same
place with a different path.

I am so appreciative. Thank you so much.
Jo

 

One picture is worth a thousand words ...

Whoohoo! You're welcome.