[kwiebe]

Using the beta, I noticed if I reply to a message in my Inbox the reply gets threaded to the original message, by design. But then I noticed this might be a problem, since my usual practice for incoming mail was to reply with a quote of the original, then delete the original. The reply (along with the original, quoted) was saved to my Sent Items. With the beta, when I delete the original, everything gets deleted, due to the threading.

Is there a way to control the threading so this does not happen? i.e., now I have to take an additional step of moving the thread out of my Inbox manually, if I want to keep my reply. I would like to have everything I send actually go into Sent Items, and not get deleted merely because I had no interest in keeping the original message I was replying to. This seems to add a manual step that I would have to remember to do, which is never a good plan for users, I don't think.