Why do Sent emails appear in my Inbox? This makes no sense.
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NO ONE does this! Get it? Why is Vivaldi trying to be unconventional? It wastes our time. Who wants to see Sent stuff in their Inbox when it's in the Sent folder? To make it worse you can't even delete it there. You have to hunt it down in the Sent folder to delete it. Unbelievable design flaws.
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@viv2u Inbox? Vivaldi doesn't have its own Inbox. You may need to check settings with your mail provider.
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@viv2u
Can you share more information about the issue? For example, what's the name of the folder you're viewing?If it says "All Messages" or your email address, then those indeed list all messages, including sent, spam, archived messages and deleted messages. They can be filtered out, though.
Look for folders called Unread and Received to see incoming messages from all mailboxes or go to specific accounts and locate the Inbox subfolder.
I also recommend taking a look at our Help pages about Mail to learn how things work in Vivaldi Mail.
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@viv2u
Here too:
Please familiarise yourself with things
before you start ranting.Vivaldi offers many possibilities.
Which you might not otherwise be familiar with,
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I am experiencing the same problem. It happens when you send yourself a mail (I do this to keep a mail as a TODO; especially when I send mails to other people where I want to have a reminder to check for a reply).
Such mails are shown (on the right hand side, above the reading area) as "Sent, Inbox".
After deleting the mail via "Shift+Del", it is shown as "Sent", and cannot be deleted anymore (from "Unread" view). Have to open the "Sent" folder to delete the mail there.
And what is worse: If you delete it from the Sent folder first, it apparently also gets deleted from your Inbox. -
The same message in Sent and Inbox, is called 'deduplication'.
This thread and specifically this post has some information regarding it.
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Just for the record, I started a draft on my phone and it appeared as a message in unread but can not be found in received, sent, drafts or outbox - took me a moment to work out why unread and recieved have different message counts!
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@mossman a draft from your phone shows in Unread on your desktop? I have not heard about that effect yet. This would mean that the drafts folder from your server is somehow mapped as an inbox in Vivaldi ... can you reproduce this?!
Usually on Win11 running Vivaldi Snapshot builds. Opinionated about working efficiently with email. Folders are evil | Mail workflow: receive, read, reply, mark as read, done.
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When the draft message failed to be listed under All Messages > Drafts did you try right clicking on the Drafts folder and selecting Advanced > Rerun Filter for Folder?
For the draft message to appear under All Messages > Unread its status must be set to unread. Is that the case?
Does the draft message appear under All Accounts > Account name > Drafts?
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@WildEnte said in Why do Sent emails appear in my Inbox? This makes no sense.:
@mossman a draft from your phone shows in Unread on your desktop? I have not heard about that effect yet. This would mean that the drafts folder from your server is somehow mapped as an inbox in Vivaldi ... can you reproduce this?!
I am able to reproduce this using FairEmail on my Android.
E-mails are in the Drafts folders for two different accounts in the app.
In Vivaldi Mail, one account required a rerun of the filter, to display it. In the another account (with a different provider), simply opening the Drafts folder displayed the message.
If someone would like to submit a bug report, please post the number of the report (VB-xxxxxx) and I'll be happy to confirm it.
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@yojimbo274064400 said in Why do Sent emails appear in my Inbox? This makes no sense.:
When the draft message failed to be listed under All Messages > Drafts did you try right clicking on the Drafts folder and selecting Advanced > Rerun Filter for Folder?
For the draft message to appear under All Messages > Unread its status must be set to unread. Is that the case?
Does the draft message appear under All Accounts > Account name > Drafts?
Re-running the drafts filter made it appear.
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@WildEnte said in Why do Sent emails appear in my Inbox? This makes no sense.:
@mossman a draft from your phone shows in Unread on your desktop? I have not heard about that effect yet. This would mean that the drafts folder from your server is somehow mapped as an inbox in Vivaldi ... can you reproduce this?!
I very very rarely leave a draft on my phone, but this behaviour didn't surprise me (once I worked out what it was). I expect I've seen this kind of thing before.
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@edwardp said in Why do Sent emails appear in my Inbox? This makes no sense.:
I am able to reproduce this using FairEmail on my Android.
E-mails are in the Drafts folders for two different accounts in the app.
In Vivaldi Mail, one account required a rerun of the filter, to display it. In the another account (with a different provider), simply opening the Drafts folder displayed the message.
If someone would like to submit a bug report, please post the number of the report (VB-xxxxxx) and I'll be happy to confirm it.
Once the e-mails are deleted out of the Drafts folders in the app, I reran the filters for the accounts and then folders in Vivaldi Mail. The e-mails were duplicated in the accounts' Trash folders and the original draft remained in the accounts' Drafts folders in Vivaldi Mail.
Re-running the filter for only the Drafts folders, did not remove the messages.
