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I am running Outlook 2007 under Vista Home Premium. The e-mail is
working OK except for one matter. When I write an e-mail message to
someone, it goes into Outbox, then into Sent Items. After that, I move
the message to my inbox.

Why?

I like to move certain sent e-mail messages to the inbox so I can follow
up to see if a reply has been received or not received. I find this
convenient to the way I do things.

Have you tried the "Show all related messages" function?


Also, I was afraid that e-mail messages left in the
Sent Items folder might be automatically deleted by the system.

Nope - unless you are on Exchange and exceed your quota AFAIK


I don't mind (too much) that my procedure is questioned without
suggesting answering my problem. I still would like hear whether Outlook
has a problem or whether the way I am doing things if causing the
messages to disappear. Thanks.

Check your views or any automated archiving function....


Thanks to Gordon for a helpful reply. My Views settings were OK, but I did
find and change a couple of e-mail folders that were set up for
AutoArchiving. That will be helpful in the future, but doesn't explain the
disappearing-mails (there were only 3), as my inbox was not set for
AutoArchiving and no Archive.pst account had been set up in Outlook.

I could not find a Show All Related Messages function in Outlook 2007, but I
did check out all my View options. I didn't see any settings there that
might explain my problem.

I'm giving up for now, but will investigate further if any more messages
disappear from my inbox. Thanks again.