All sent messages gone?

A few days ago (9/1/2008) I checked my sent box in mail, and all my sent messages were gone. I think everything was normal before when I checked it a few days earlier (8/27/08). I can't find any place to ask about missing email... Who do I contact?
Thanks for any assistance in advance.

For some reason this system won't let me edit my original post...
Edit: Now that I remember, I was having issues when I was removing my mail account from my old laptop three weeks ago ... I deleted files in Mail's library folder, and thought that was all I needed to do to disassociate Mail with my account (since that's how apps in linux work); however, I didn't realize that .Mac (now MobileMe) was still set in the system preferences, and for some reason Mail kept on syncing my mail account. I didn't lose any messages in my inbox, but could this have caused all the mail in my sent box to be deleted? I never actually deleted the messages within the app, so I'm not sure why Mail would delete only sent messages and not messages in the inbox.

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This issue sounds suspiciously similar to my recent post ... Mail 4.2 is "deleting" all of my downloaded POP Inbox and Sent messages older than 30 days and these are not available in my Time Machine either.
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The iTunes sync process does not include email account mailboxes and messages.
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Firefox and other browsers can only display the emails. All the content, emails, settings etc. are stored at and received from the remote site/server. If an add-on is being used with Firefox, you can try to check its '''Options''' in '''Tools '''('''Alt '''+ '''T''') > '''Addons''' > '''Extensions'''. Otherwise you may have to check the mail archives in Gmail and Windows Live sites. You can also check the trash/deleted folders in the respective mail sites for any mails that may have been manually deleted within usually 30 days.
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[http://windowslivehelp.com/ Windows Live Help]
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Sent messages gone?

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Now, locate within ~/Library/Mail/ the account folder affected by the problem -- its name begins with the account type (POP, IMAP, Mac), followed by the account username and the incoming mail server. Repeat the procedure to let me see the names of the files and folders it contains.
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Hi,
This is my first time posting in the community as I am ALWAYS able to find a fix for any Apple issues by searching the web. However, I am completely stumped on this one.
Since upgrading to Mavericks, every single message I send in Apple Mail on my exchange account gets automatically tagged with a default red flag. No matter what I've done so far, I cannot stop mail from automatically flagging all sent mail.
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Any mail you send from a pop3 client will not appear in your webmail Sent folder. If you want all of your sent messages to appear in webmail, then you have to send all of your messages from webmail.
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*Just downloaded (40 mins) & installed iPhone Software version 2.0.*
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This may be odd... responding to my own posting, but for anyone with similar issue, I just spoke with the people at "1-800-myiphone".
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Sincerely,
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Suddenly hundreds of "sent" messages disappeared. Folder is empty, but 'properties' says there are 679 messages. So not deleted I guess. But where are they?

The only thing I changed before this happened was the 'retention' policy in my account settings with respect to retaining/deleting messages on the server. I had that set at 'never delete' while I was away for a week, but changed it to delete after 7 days on my return today. All sent messages then disappeared on the server, and I discovered later to my surprise in my computer as well. Next to the "Sent" folder in the computer there's now a small square that's filled in darkly. I don't know if the square was there before, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't dark if it was there at all. I really need those 'sent' messages - at least the most recent ones. Does anyone have any idea what's going on? Also - I could do a 'system restore', but have the feeling that won't affect my Thunderbird account at all. Is that right?

I suspect your account is an IMAP account. With IMAP all mail is managed on the server. If you delete a message in Thunderbird it is removed on the server as well, and vice versa.
So I think what happened is what's described in the article in the
'It's just doing what you told it to do' section.
More details in this article.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Message_aging
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I don't think I understand what 'a small square that's filled in darkly' is.
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