Does Blackboard keep a copy of mail messages sent from the Blackboard Communications Area?

If you send an email in Blackboard to "All Users", then it also sends a copy of the message to your normal Bethel Email account.
If you send to the other choices ("select users" etc.) then you must check the "Send Copy of Message to self" or you will not get a copy.
No, Blackboard does not archive e-mails, but does compensate in the above two ways. In essence it is a content management system that does send email, but it is not an email program in and of itself.