Disappearing eMail out of Mail (in ML 10.8.1)

Having sent an importan eMail out of the Mail ( to several recipients) containing one photograph it went out OK . Since then one kind recipient replied back (sending back my original eMail). Just as well, because when I inspected my specific Sent Box to find the email to forward the part of it to another preson , the eMail vanished . Ther was no record of this eMail anywher . I searched all SENT boxes and none of them contain record of this email. I even searched the Trash in the Mail (just in case ) and it is not there either and trash has not been cleared for some time.
If the kind recipient did not respond to I would have NO RECORD of this communication at all. I think we are dealing with a serios issue with the Mail - I was starting to install Mountain Lion at my clients workstation and I have stopped this task immediately.
This is the only major problem I have to report - but it is serious enough to warn others. I suggest if you are sending any critical eMails , save them immediately as a PDF or print them out.
Milan Svanderlik - London UK

Yes I do , I have same eMail ( two lots of me.com IMAP accpounts and 3 lots of POP accounts ) on my Mac Pro, on my MacBookPro ( both on 10.8.1 ) but also on iPhone ( latest version of OS) nothing changes the only change is move to Mountain Lion . Same preff settings on both machines.
I did go to iCloud to make sure - but the missing sent email is nowher to be seen - it has vanished.
Well we need to monitor this matter closely - lets hope it is one off .
Very strange indeed
Milan

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