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Thunderbird is automatically deleting emails from myself

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Starting several days ago, emails that I sent to myself, or cc:ed myself on, would briefly show up as usual in my Inbox, but would within a few minutes disappear. Even more oddly, they do not then appear in Trash or Junk. I can still see the email in my Sent folder, but if I take the email and move it from Sent to Inbox, the same thing happens (except now the mail is completely lost, as it's neither in Inbox nor Sent).

At first I thought this was because I marked as Spam an email that was spam but that falsely had my own name in From: . But if that were the problem, I would presumably be seeing my emails in the Junk folder -- and I don't.

Has anyone else encountered this? Thank you.

Starting several days ago, emails that I sent to myself, or cc:ed myself on, would briefly show up as usual in my Inbox, but would within a few minutes disappear. Even more oddly, they do not then appear in Trash or Junk. I can still see the email in my Sent folder, but if I take the email and move it from Sent to Inbox, the same thing happens (except now the mail is completely lost, as it's neither in Inbox nor Sent). At first I thought this was because I marked as Spam an email that was spam but that falsely had my own name in From: . But if that were the problem, I would presumably be seeing my emails in the Junk folder -- and I don't. Has anyone else encountered this? Thank you.

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I see now that this also happens when I use my ISP's webmail reader in the browser, while Thunderbird is not running. So presumably this has nothing to do with Thunderbird.

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Gmail simply hides mail from yourself, given you do not say what mail provider you use that is about as specific as I can get.