Missing Sent Mail

Sent mail is not appearing in my local Mail client although it does appear on Mobile Me. Attempts to fix the problem include recreating my mail account, syncing account, reindexing my mail and reinstalling the Mail application. A sent mail folder exists locally but sent mail does not appear in the folder.
Are there any other suggestions for fixing the problem?

Based on your previous post you know you're way around the 'Mail' application, but if you can't find out where to go just post back. Now I don't know much about MobileMe and if his has any effect on this at all as well, just FYI.
Go into your mail preferences and accounts and find out what is set as your outgoing mail server. Also go to rules from preferences and see if anything is listed there.

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Hello Ranjit68,
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities!
It sounds like you are getting some unexpected behaviour after your update to iOS 7.
I want to recommend these 2 steps from the article named:
iOS: Troubleshooting Mail
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3899
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Delete the affected email account from your device.
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Choose the affected email account, then tap Delete Account.
Add your account again.
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Sometimes, when I send email, especially if it has attachments, the send op completes, but there are no traces of the sent email in the sent mailbox on the Mail client or on the iCloud web interface.
The message itself more often than not actually reaches the intended recipient, but I have no record of it ever having been sent.
Sometimes, when there are more than one recipient, it will go to some, but not all recipients
this is now happenng almost daily and is seriously impacting my business.
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I see that this is very annoying and for someone who sends lots of emails for work is very bad!! It happened to me sometimes, fortunately that times I was sending emails to my other email accounts to do various checks.
Mine is not an answer, but if you haven't already done it, I suggest to send a feedback to the Apple Mail team :
Mail -> Provide Mail feedback... -> choose if you want or not send information to apple and click continue and you will be sent to a page where you can describe your problem and send it to the team (probably as bug because is quite important).
You can mark the fact that this is a serious problem and maybe someone will tackle the issue to resolve it.
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Because is a problem that involves theoretically both Apple Mail and eventually the servers (maybe both or maybe just one of the two) that actually handle the sending operation (Gmail,Yahoo,etc.) I would suggest to send the email both from webmail and from Apple Mail for example to one of your accounts to see if they both arrive.

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IF you are talking about Exchange on Google with Gmail (ie chose exchange and using m.google.com) here is what I did to fix it.
Using your browser, sign into Gmail. IF, NEAR THE BOTTOM of your folder lists, you have a label(folder) on the left side called "Sent Items" then delete it (mine never had anything in it and i think it's for conversations.) BTW, I KNOW this is a Junk E-Mail (remember i already deleted my folder) but wanted to show you the drop down and Remove Label option.
Then go to your Settings -> Mail, Contacts, Calendars -> Exchange -> Mail Folders to Push -> and put a checkbox next to SENT (looks like a paper airplane)
backout, go back into mail -> Exchange -> and you should then see the same paper airplane there.
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Not sure about the time stamp problem, but the missing "Sent" mails problem is not uncommon. This problem is one that a lot of people have and in my opinion, I think it's a problem with Apple's mail application, nothing at the user's end.
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I doubt the messages are gone; Mail has probably just lost it's mind and doesn't realize they're there. So let's try rebuilding your Mail index.
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@Satterp
Not sure if you were responding to me or OP - my iPhone is on 5.1. The OP at the time of writing was on 5.0.1.
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I have been hving some problems with Mail recently, three issues have become major Pains in the ***:
1. Just about every 3 or 4 emails that I send from my .mac account seem to go through but a copy or receipt of them don't show up in the "sent" mail folder/area.
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The weird part about all of this is that I use several e-mail accounts on my computer... one of them is a POP3, the rest are IMAP. Historically every message I've sent, regardless of the account, has been stored in the Sent folder, now only mail being sent from the POP3 account is being stored.
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And yes, my network card settings are just fine.
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Call Apple Customer Relations - 1-800-275-2273. Ask politely & firmly that you want to be transferred to Customer Relations. Tell them exactly what you stated in your post.
GOOD LUCK!
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