AppleMail Sent not saved

It appears (to me) that AppleMail no longer saves Sent email "on my Mac." Instead, this seems to be limited entirely to what is saved on iClod. It is very important (to me) that my Sent messages ALL be saved to my Mac so that space limitation on iCloud is not a factor. How do I accomplish this?

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It was working correctly but suddenly all my sent messages are not saved in the Sent Mailbox. I follow all the Mail Help instructions but nothing seems to work. Hope that someone can help me. I asked for help on december 14 but it was not helpful

The mailboxes drawer contains all mailboxes under In, Drafts, Sent, Trash and Junk (if you have Junk Mail set to automatic).
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If you select save Sent messages on the server for a .Mac or IMAP type account, the account's Sent mailbox will be available under the account named icon in the mailboxes drawer along with all other server stored mailboxes.
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Select the account's Sent mailbox and at the menu bar, go to Mailbox > Use This Mailbox For and select Sent.
If you deselect store Sent messages on the server for the account preferences, the account's Sent mailbox will be available under Sent in the mailboxes drawer and you can't use "Use This Mailbox For" for mailboxes stored locally on the hard drive. It can only be used for .Mac or IMAP type account mailboxes that are stored on the server.

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When using Windows 8.1 context menu: Send to --> Mail recipient, message is sent OK, but not saved in Sent folder, with error massage: There was an error saving the message to Sent. Retry? (selecting Retry doesn't help).
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We are using a shared email account added in Outlook 2011 for Mac. It's not the default account but we send from it often.
Whenever sending from this secondary mailbox, the message is not saved in sent items folder under the secondary mailbox or the default mailbox. There seems to be no record of the sent item anywhere.
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Hello,
Please first log into OWA and check if the email are saved in the Sent Items folder.
We can tick the option "Save copies of messages in Sent Items folder" in Outlook 2010 and Outlook 2013 to save a copy of sent message, please check if you get such option in Outlook for Mac.
In addition, in Outlook for Windows, we can change a registry key to force Outlook to save sent emails in the default or secondary mailbox, but I'm not sure if Outlook 2011 has such trick. See:
http://www.msoutlook.info/question/278
Since this forum is general questions and feedback related to Outlook for Windows, it's better to post your question to the forum for Mac:
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Sent items not saved in personal sent items when shared mailbox is open in outlook

hi,
user is using exchange 2010 and the shared mailboxes are in exchange 2003. when user send an email as send as to the shared mailbox the sent items is not saved in her personal sent items. she can look up the sent items on her shared mailboxes sent items.
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Hi,
Since Exchange 2003 server is out of support, I still suggest migrating to Exchange 2010 server.
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I have a bluetooth device to connect my phone (Nokia 6233) to PC. When I'm trying to send a message everything goes perfect (the message is sent) only one problem appear: the message is not saved in my phone.
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there may be differencies between phone models here (S60 devices or S40 devices, you have S40). Also if I recall right, it used to be so that some older versions of PC Suite did not save the PC sent sms's to phone.
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Hi Bassolino and David,
I, too, have had this intermittent issue and wonder if you had found a solution?
In the past 3 weeks, two messages have been sent from my mac mail account, using the mail application (the only apparent common factor being that both messages had iphoto attachments), the recipients have received them - only I do not have a copy in my 'sent' folder.
They are not stored on the macintosh server either...
I have not altered any settings and this intermittent issue has just emerged.
Any help from 'Top Users' would be welcome. Thanks.

Mail 3, smtp, IMAP: sent messages are not saved on server

Hello,
I had problems using Mail 3 after I upgraded to Leopard, so I used Thunderbird for the time being. With the update 10.5.1 I tried again: most problems solved BUT: sent messages are not saved on the server in mailbox "Sent".
Some background: I deleted the folder "<User>/Library/Mail" and "<User>/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist" and configured Mail from scratch.
To be sure: I still have Thunderbird installed, and when I send with Thunderbird: a copy is placed in "Sent".
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rene

Well, be stumped I did all that, but to be sure, I did it again:
I have a lot folders with subfolders and they are shown under my account name.
I created a new folder "test" in my IMAP account and designated it to be the new "Sent" folder. It replaces my previous Sent folder in the group Inbox, Drafts, Trash. My previous Sent folder now appears under my account name as a "normal" folder.
I send a message and the Activity monitor says: +"Delivering message: copying message"+. After a minute Mail is done. I check my (new) "Sent" folder and it's empty. I double check in webmail: it's empty.
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Then I try to move a message to the "Sent' folder: for a minute the Activity moinor says: Copying messages: copying message" and then Mail prompts: +"The message "testing" could not be+
+The connection to the server mail.hicetnunc.nl on port 143 timed out"+.
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In both instances Mail says: +"The message "..." could not be be moved to the mailbox "..."+
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Last thing: I try to move a message to a folder in the same account again. But in the process I quit Mail. I open Mail again and Mail is performing pending operations: copying message. After a while Mail prompts: +"Operation could not be completed. (MFMessageErrorDomain error 1028.)"+ and crashes... I open Mail again and it tries to peform pending operations. Again: an error message and Mail crashes. This keeps going on so I delete the whole account and set it up again. Nothing's changed...
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Tks for your answer. I have a .Mac account and in already try in Preferences-Accounts- and I only see three tabs: " Account Information ", " Mailboxes Behaivor " and " Advanced ". I don´t see the " Special Mailboxes " tab that you mention and I have also read about it. In Mailboxes Behaivor I can choose the option " Store sent messages on the server " and the Delete sent messages option is in " Never". If I choose not to Store sent messages on the server, nothing seems to happen. I hope you can help me with this information and I want to thank you again

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Hello,
This is a follow up to this thread, which was never answered and is now archived:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2213207
In Mail.app, using IMAP, my sent messages are sometimes not saved. I'd say about 1 in 20 never appear in my Sent folder. The recipients always receive these messages, so it's not a delivery problem. I just don't retain a copy of them. This is very frustrating if I send a cost estimate to a client, or a detailed description of a technical problem that I need to refer back to later.
I've rebuilt my mailboxes and I've checked my IMAP folders on the server via a webmail interface, and the messages are not there.
Has anyone else experienced this? It's hard to believe I'm the only one, but it's hard to search for this problem because my search results are always full of people who have lost or can't save -any- of their sent messages. My problem is intermittent and random.
Thanks,
-Arlo

I have a similar occasional problem with an IMAP account using a Comcast Business Class Exchange server. I use Mail and my iPhone to access the account; I'm running OS X 10.6.4 on my laptop but my "sent messages" issue predates the latest release.
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It's distressing. First, the solution would appear to be a switch to a MS mail client, which I swore off years ago. Second, I rely on having a "sent" message as a record. I switched off IDLE per your suggestion, Ernie, but otherwise I'm in the same boat as the others here. Please keep this thread alive. I'm hopeful that this can be resolved.

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All off the other categories of SMS (Inbox, Outbox, Drafts, Archive) seem to replicate OK between phone and NCC. Why not the Sent messages?
And yes, I am sure that the messages are being sent - that was the first thing I checked
What am I (or the SW) doing wrong?
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unfortunately I'm also suffering from lack of this feature. however I'm not sure which other mobile phone can do something like requested by author (and me ).
Suppose it has something to do with the way desktop software works with GSM phones, it probably just sends series of AT commands to GSM phone modem, initiating sending of message. Saving of message into "Sent" box may be not implemented into standard AT command set (but here I'm only guessing).
I've happened to work with old Siemens phone and it behaved almost same way, i.e. messages were sent but not saved in "Sent" box. However there was a trick - desktop software had not only "Send" but also "Save" button, and pressing of this button saved messages in "Drafts" box. So if I needed absolutely message to be saved in "Sent" box, I prepared messages and saved them to "Drafts". Later I should take my phone and send messages manually from phone, so at least I saved efforts on typing, but had to work from both PC and phone interfaces to send message.
I'm not sure if any "alternative" software for Nokia phones (like Oxygen Phone Manager) have this capability, but if you look at this screen http://www.oxygensoftware.com/en/products/opm2/images/SMSPictureMessage.gif you shall see there "Save" button which may possibly (?) implement same functionality.
Message Edited by sidream on 05-Apr-2009 05:50 PM

Not saving copy of sent messages.

Hi, I used to have my mail account set up as an Imap but I started to get a lot of messages come into my mailbox with text missing in the subject or sender lines and even have the content be empty. I switched it to a pop account and all that stopped. Lately, I've missed having the messages stay on my server so I can check them again from work the next day so I set up an imap account again. It is working (about one week) but I'm having two issues. Sometimes the missing text issue is happening again but more annoying is that when I am typing a message, I keep getting a message that says 'this message cannot be saved'. The message is being sent but it is was not saving it in my sent messages folder. I had originally set it up to keep sent messages on the server and when this error message started, my ISP suggested I change that. I did and it stopped. But today, it started again, but not with every message. One I sent out a half hour ago shows up in my sent mail folder on my computer. However, I was just working on another message and got the error message. I sent the message but their is not a copy in my sent folder.
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BellaMichelle,
After re-reading your post, I believe one of your
problems (the one that annoys you most) is related to
the Drafts mailbox. Do you have "Store draft messages
on the server" enabled in Preferences > Accounts >
Mailbox Behaviors?
Yes I do.. should I have it or not??
Regarding the other problem about messages not being
displayed properly, what are your "Keep copies of
messages for offline viewing"
this says All messages and their attachments
and "Automatically
synchronize changed mailboxes" settings in
Preferences > Accounts > Advanced for this
account?
this is not checked.
David, you said you get the error
message but I am not clear if your messages are
being
saved or not... I am guessing not.
No, I didn't say anything like that. Actually, I
don't use IMAP myself other than for testing purposes
or when one of my accounts gives me problems when
used as POP.
Sorry, a fellow posted after you saying he had the same problem using his imap and I thought it said David.
Michelle

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I've noticed that Mail is not saving my sent messages. I started to notice this yesterday. It's very erratic though. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. I have the option selected in preferences to Store Sent Messages on the Server (my .mac account).
Any idea what is going on? I even checked my .mac Sent Mesages folder using WebMail and they're not there either.
John
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You're welcome.
With a .Mac or IMAP type account, you can save Drafts, Sent, Trash and Junk messages on the server instead of locally on the hard drive.
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