Double Sent Messages after Reindexing

Hi all,
my Mac tends to destroy its Mail index on a regular basis. After switching to a Mac I had to get used to data loss - sad enough.
This alone is not a big deal. Just reindex the mail and one should be done
with the problem.
What really annoys me is the fact that after reindexing mail my outbox is full with 20 or so almost arbitrary mails that Mail tries to resend. Hence I disconnect the machine from the net, if I reindex, delete all mails he puts in the outbox to prevent the machine from sending month old dup mails.
This happened a few times anyway and if I'm asked "why do you send out months old mails" I have to say "because I have a Mac that tends to do nasty things in one of the most basic services" - very annoying!
BUT - sorry - this is not a professional procedure ..
Has anybody got an answer
* whether this is a known problem
* and why Apple is not able to provide a mail program that is not ridden with such essential and really annoying bugs.
Providing a program that does not destroy its index of 7.000 or so mails on an almost weekly basis should be no rocket science.
If I took it seriously, I would have to discard my fleet of three MacBooks because this behaviour is not tolerable in Business - just because you violate a few laws about archiving of mails and a few guys at Wall Street have paid 1,5 billion in fines for missing mails.
Any help - any comments ???

Ernie, in the meantime I'm able to reproduce the behaviour.
If I'm using Mail.app via an UMTS connection the program will
sometimes not send out mails.
In trains this happens preferably when the connection is shaky (tunnels) -
but it also happened to me in a coffeeshop with premium UMTS reception. But most mobile connections have longer breaks due to the specific behaviour of UMTS cells.
In this case mails are not sent out - they simply disappear and cannot
be found - neither via spotlight nor any other means. They simply seem gone.
Once I notice this behaviour I can throw away the mail index and after reindexing the lost mails will appear in the outbox - this explains what
I described as "double sent mails" above. It was worse - they never went out
and they show up again in the outbox after reindex.
Seems like the guys at Apple are not able to program against a notion of transaction (either the mail is out or still in the out basket). Hard to believe for somebody with a MS in computer science that creators of a commercial and widespread mail applicaion would assume a fully stable internet connection in order to have the program work correctly. They should know that no data connection is fully reliable.
Anyway - I have enough facts now to do as you said and forward the bug to the Apple Dev team.
Cheers, Wolfgang

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