Gmail – How to Disable Automatic Archiving of Sent Emails

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When you send an email in Gmail, it is archived in the Sent folder.

Is there a way to disable this auto-archiving of sent email inside Gmail?

I.e. All sent emails should be auto-deleted.

Does any of the following email clients allow you to turn off automatic sent email archiving?:

  1. Yahoo
  2. Hotmail
  3. In
  4. Rocket mail
  5. Squirrelmail

Best Answer

I don't believe there is anyway to do this in Gmail. When an email is sent it appears in the "Sent Mail" folder (or rather is assigned the sent label) and there does not appear to be anyway to change this behaviour. "Filters" only act on incoming email.

However, you can do this in some other email clients, by essentially not saving the sent email:

SquirrelMail

You can set it to simply not use the "Sent" folder. Under Options > Folder Preferences > Special Folder Options > Set "Sent Folder" to "[Do not use Sent]":

SquirrelMail - Special Folder Options

roundcube

In roundcube you can set this at the time you compose the email, by selecting "- don't save -" from the "Save sent message in" dropdown:

roundcube - Save sent message in

To make this the default option you can set this in Settings > Preferences > Special Folders and set the "Sent" folder to "---":

roundcube - Special Folders

Mozilla Thunderbird (desktop email client)

In Thunderbird you can simply uncheck the "Place a copy in" checkbox, with regards to "sending messages" (in the appropriate account settings), and the sent email does not appear to be saved anywhere. The default behaviour is to save the sent email in the Sent folder on the email account.

In Account Settings > Copies & Folders > When sending messages, automatically: > Uncheck "Place a copy in".

Thunderbird Account Settings - Copies & Folders

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