Mail downloaded from POP account in Gmail appears in Sent mail

I have configured Gmail to download mail from two other POP accounts. I use Mail.app in OS X with IMAP to access my Gmail. I've noticed that when I receive a message from one of my POP accounts, it appears in my inbox but also as an unread message in my Sent mail folder. Why? Is there anything I can do to change this behavior?

Sorry, I should have been more clear. The Gmail account is set-up as IMAP. But it does download POP email from other accounts. It's a nice feature and one of the main reasons I just use Gmail now for all email.
I know I could just ignore the issue, but it bothers me to have unread messages in the Sent mailbox. Clutters up the interface.

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The mail isn't necessarily being deleted, just disappearing. Did you check in the Trash for Mail to see if it's been moved there?
If it's not in the Trash:
Quit Mail.
Go to Home/Library/Mail and delete the Envelope Index file(s).
Restart Mail and wait for it to rebuilt the index, then see if the disappearing Mail reappears. If so, problem solved.
If it doesn't reappear and the problem continues, then I suspect your Mail preferences file is corrupt, in which case you need to do this:
Quit Mail.
Go to Home/Library/Preferences and delete the com.apple.mail.plist file.
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that's because yahoo only offers POP access. that's a limitation of POP. it only downloads your inbox messages from the server. it does not do any kind of syncing and it does not download or up load sent messages. if you want that you need to switch to an email provider that offers IMAP (yahoo doesn't). IMAP syncs everything with the server so you'll get the same mailboxes contents everywhere you access that account.

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Subject: Problem receiving mail from POP account
I have been using Mail 1.3.11 for quite some time and never had any problem with it until recently, when I suddenly stopped reliably receiving new mail from my POP account. What happens now is that each time Mail checks for new mail on the server, it says "finding unseen messages" and imports one or two (but usually no) new messages, then it quits searching, even though there are hundreds of new messages on the server. When it does import new messages, it will give a "getting message 1 out of 261" (or some such large number) message, then quit once it has downloaded a very few.
I have tried fixing the problem by completely uninstalling Mail (by moving the application and the mail folders from User-Library, User-Library-Chaches, and User-Library-Scripts, along with the com.apple.mail.plist file from User-Library-Preferences all to another disk) and reinstalling it with a new account, but the problem persists.
I know that this is not a problem with the mail server because I have tried accessing this account with other mail clients and they work just fine, but I'd really rather not switch from Mail since it has so many features that I feel I can't do without.
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This sounds like a problem with the account's Inbox mailbox.
Quit Mail first and using the Finder, go to Home > Library > Mail > this account named folder (named by the user name and incoming mail server for the account) > INBOX.mbox.
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Is my Gmail app on my iphone preventing my mail app from connecting to my gmail account?
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it may be a two part security verification. contact the email provider and see if you need a special password.
some users find simply changing the password resloves the issue.
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http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=138740
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if you are not on ios 6, then all you can do is wait. if you have deleted the address from your contact list, then it will live on for a while in your 'recently used' addresses. as you use new addresses, those older ones fall down the list, and eventually fall off altogether (unless you use them again). Have patience, it will go away.
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Where is Sent mail stored in POP account?

OK;
I should know this and Wikipedia doesn't explain it, but in using Mail under a POP account where "leave mail on server for x time " is selected, are both the incoming and outgoing mail saved on server or only the incoming? I ask because I am trying to restore a POP account using a TM backup that is a few days old. I know the incoming mail will be there for the time since the backup because I checked "leave on server", but will the Sent mail be there also?

Mail that you send is stored in the Sent Messages.mbox folder for the account, in your Library/Mail folder. It is not stored on the server.
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