My mail trash bin disappeared

So... My mail application has an Inbox folder, a Sent folder and I used to have a trash icon there too, and it disappeared. My email service is comcast.net and now when I delete any message it's just gone no questions asked. The question is two-fold: How do I get my mail trash bin back and if I can't do that, are the messages really being deleted or are they lurking somewhere in the HD?

Never mind, after I got out of the mail application and back in for about three times, the trash bin reappeared. Go figure...

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