Incorrect terminology should now be fixed. Thanks for calling that out. Note that Google's SMTP servers do store the messages in your sent mail folder. I don

Incorrect terminology should now be fixed. Thanks for calling that out. Note that Google's SMTP servers do store the messages in your sent mail folder. I don't claim to know exactly how they do this (IMAP, direct access to filesystems, whatever), but the messages are stored -- and yes, obviously the SMTP protocol doesn't facilitate this but their SMTP servers perform this action.