I'm trying out Windows Live Mail (with my regular gmail address) because I don't especially like Thunderbird. But I'm experiencing three problems so far: (1)When I send an email, it automatically gets placed not in the Sent mail folder, which I want, but in the Trash folder, which I don't want, so (2) I don't know if the email was actually sent, and (3) when I send a test email from Live Mail to my academic address, which is set up to forward all emails to my gmail address, the test email never gets forwarded into the Live Mail inbox. Help. If I can't get such elementary problems corrected, I will need to return to Thunderbird, which at least is reliable.

Thanks for any help you can provide!