All messages in sent folder are gone! :(

Hi there,
All messages in the "Sent" folder in the Mail application are gone!
I had around 2,000 messages, some with large attachments.
Did "Mail" just deleted them?!
Could I somehow recover the lost messages?
Please help if you know anything about this unfortunate incident...
Thanks!
1.6 GHz powerPC G5 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

You have adequate free hard drive space - with a 74.5 GB HD capacity, you should keep no less than 7.5 - 8 GB free.
What is the overall size of the Mail folder?
The Mail.app alone requires the same amount of free hard drive space as the overall size of the Mail folder for general housekeeping purposes during use. If you don't have adequate free hard drive space, application preference files can become corrupt or be lost and data loss can also occur.
Each email client has limits and with Jaguar/Panther Mail, you shouldn't allow a mailbox to exceed 1GB in size and with Tiger Mail, 2GB.
Better to utilize user created "On My Mac" mailboxes to sort received and sent messages by category not deleted that you need to save once a month or so. I've been using the Mail.app exclusively since Jaguar was introduced, thru Panther and now Tiger and I've never experienced the same. Before upgrading to Tiger, I didn't allow a mailbox to exceed 500 MB or so and I use the Rebuild Mailbox function on the most active mailboxes on a regular basis - once a month or every couple of weeks depending on activity.
I also use SuperDuper to maintain a bootable clone of my hard drive saved to an external Firewire drive.
Also, you wrote "When a mailbox has an "overstuffed" mailbox issue
which means the mailbox is corrupt, a good number of messages are
incorrectly stored in another and/or other package files. "
-where should I start looking ?
There is no other place to look. The other package content files for this mailbox have no significant size.

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