Gmail – My inbox messages copying to sent folder with weird address

Set up a filter to apply a label to all your outgoing mail (From: yourID@gmail.com gets the label "outgoing") NOT under filters, but under forwarding, enable the forwarding of all mail to the single targeted address.

Restrictions:

If you try to do this solely using filters, the forwarding will not happen. You must enable forwarding of all mail to the intended recipient (the "manager") from the forwarding tab. You can't forward to multiple addresses this way unless you use the primary recipient address to then split the mail into many destinations. All mail both incoming and outgoing will be forwarded.

I have not found a way to add the inbox label to all outgoing messages. But you can use "multiple inboxes" to get sent mail to the top of the window

1. Go to settings/Labs and select "Multiple inboxes"
2. Save Changes
3. You should now see a "Multiple inboxes" tab in settings.
4. GMail will let you specify a search query. In the first box enter "is:Sent Mail" without the quotes.
5. Set the maximum page size to a larger number. It didn't complain about using 50, but I don't know if there is a maximum value.
6. Optional: Set "Extra panels positioning" to Above the inbox. This will put the "Sent Mail" label above the main inbox.
7. Save changes

There may be a couple of second lag the first time you go back to the main page, becuse it has to execute the new query.

It does the job with a couple of issues:

• Each inbox has its own < and > button to move through the list
• Each inbox has its own "view all" button which jumps you to the label
• The gear button is only on the tool bar above the main inbox section.