Help missing important sent mails

just sent 3 critical messages and non e show up in sent.
how can i make sure dont lose critical emails. mac mail does this but myfree emial doesnt ever lose it . i htought paid email was better? what can i do?
i cant afford to lose emails!

my clock had lost time and filed mac mail messages in wrong time. so they were there .found them by accident after saw clcok on computer was changed. now fixed clock all is well again.

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I wasn't sure where to put this question because of the way this forum is organized.
Anyway, here is my problem:
I woke up thinking I may have forgotten to send an important e-mail yesterday. I thought, "No problem, I won't have to drive all the way to work. I'll just set up Mail on my iMac to use the e-mail account I use at work." It's an SBCGlobal account, so I found most of the information I needed about the mail servers and POP and IMAP and all that stuff that could be termed in a lot more user-friendly language so I don't have a conniption fit trying to figure out what it is I'm doing.
I finally managed to get it set up to where all of the messages from the inboxes were imported into my Mail app. One big problem: I need to look at the *sent* mail, and if I didn't send the e-mail I thought I needed to, I need to access attachments that I sent to others.
So how do I important the sent folder from my work e-mail account into Mail?

I wouldn't doubt it. I work at a small church so we don't have much funding, but we're switching to Gmail. I found an older, unedited print copy of what I was supposed to send and made alterations to that and e-mailed it to the people who needed it. The other thing I was supposed to e-mail isn't essential, I suppose, as it's Sunday's bulletin and everyone will be picking one up tomorrow when they come to church anyway. It's just that I'm fairly new at the position, I love everyone at the church and with whom I work, and I want to do everything right 100% of the time to please them because I'm very Type A. I've been really getting a hang of my job, but it seems there's always one thing that I screw up. I guess I'll get better with experience. And hopefully switching to Gmail, if I do this again, I can just access everything from home.

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I don't know why Mail would import everything except the Sent mailbox, but you would get better results using Eudora Mailbox Cleaner to do the conversion.

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I searched my sent mail files for an email I sent out about 3 months ago. To my amazement, everything in the file before the date of Sept. 23 opened up with a line that went something like: "In order to view this document, you must first go online and download it." When I checked in the menu, it showed that Mail was online. I tried rebuilding my mail and every sent letter before 9/23 was deleted. When I go to my backup files, Mail tells me that the files are not Mail files. I'm perplexed, and haven't a clue as to what to do. This is not the first time I have had lost mail problems. Is Mail full of major bugs? Should I go back to Entourage? I never had a problem when I used it, but hate using any Microsoft applications.
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I have this same problem. My Sent Messages.mbox says it is 1.94 GB so I know the messages are there. So far, I have found no solutions. Hopefully someone out there has some info - please!

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Hi,
Since switching to IMAP several weeks ago, my Mail app has been very flaky. Some, but not all of my emails never arrive at their destination, and I get no errors either. Also, my 'sent' mail folder sometimes will show mail I've sent, and then it disappears.
From reading on this board, some people mention that the 'sent' mail folder on the server needs to have the same name as the one in Mail.
Well, how do I change that? Mail won't let me change the name of the main 'Sent' folder. Down below on the sidebar, there is another group of folders for each account that has IMAP. There is a 'Sent' folder there too, and I can change the name of it -- but I can't change it to the name that is actually on my server's web mail, which is 'Sent Mail'.
What is going on? Can someone explain to me how this works? I am sick of people never getting my mails and me not knowing it.
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Bob

I have no idea about the Mail not going as thats unlikely to be a Mail issue but more likely a hosting problem. try sending mail to yourself and also look at the Activity and Connection Doctor windows for clues.
As to the Sent Mail location, I don't know about the advice but my IMAP account has two folders - one called Sent and another called Sent Items. I have no idea what determines when it uses them but mail sent from the mail programme sometimes appears in one or the other.
If you can't find any mail, check you haven't got two similar folders.
Strangely, if I send mail, and check on my iPhone, it appears in yet another IMAP folder called sent which mysteriously empties itself into the other two every time the Mail program opens - until then it stays there on the iPhone.
Go figure ...

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Help please - my sent mail has completely disappeared apart from the last 3 days of sent mail. I have not deleted or changed any settings. Thats 5 years of sent mail completely gone. Is there any way of getting it back?? What could have happened?

OUTLOOK ?
Please refrain from using profanity !! <--- Joke
Ok.. I haven't used webmail in eleventy million years but something my missus just did in our email client might be a clue. She accidently clicked Unread messages and wondered why there was now only 3 emails in the inbox instead of 100. So I logged into webmail to see if that option was there and lo and behold... it is.
You didn't accidently click the same option perchance ?
I had to sned myself a test email to get one in the sent folder !!
An MSCE in computing is like having a McDonalds Certification in World Cuisine, pointless.

Importing sent e-mails as .mbox into Mail.app

After years of putting it off, I decided to finally dump Thunderbird and start using Apple's homegrown Mail app. I had tried multiple methods of getting my e-mails out of Thunderbrid and into Mail but - after many false starts and missing e-mails - I settled on simply selecting all messages in a given folder (inbox, sent) and saving as an .mbox file. Mail's own import tool never worked correctly for me, presumably because I have multiple e-mail accounts that have been merged, transfered between computers and operating systems, and tinkered with so much that Thunderbird's profile folder structure is somehow differing from the norm.
At any rate, I imported my inboxes (in .mbox format) into Mail and it worked beautifully! All the messages were marked as unread, but they were all present and accounted for and I was quite happy.
When I tried the exact same process (selecting all messages and saving as .mbox in Thunderbird, then importing into Mail) for my Sent folder, however, I encountered a problem. Mail only imported a single sent e-mail (the most recent one)! This happened with multiple attempts at multiple separate sent folders. I tried "Get Info" on the .mbox files, and - seeing as they were several hundred MB - they clearly contain more than that single message. This leads me to suspect that the issue isn't with corrupt files or Thunderbird saving them incorrectly, but rather an issue with the way Sent e-mails are handled or read by Mail.
Can anyone explain exactly what is causing this or offer advice on a way to move my sent e-mails over? I am able to save in EML, HTML, Plan Text, and other formats, though it appears that Mail really wants .mbox or a specific file from another app (once again, the Thunderbird import option doesn't work for me, so I am unable to rely on that).
Find my details below:
iMac running OSX 10.8.2
Thunderbird 17.0.2
Mail 6.2
Thanks in advance for any insight!

Go to File > Import Mailboxes> From Apple Mail. Then select the parent level folder i.e. [email protected] From that window will be checkboxes of every possible folder (inbox, draft, deleted, sent, draft) you had in your old Apple Mail.

Sent Mail Missing

MacBook Pro Laptop and .mac subscriber for years. Opened mail this evening and all sent mail messages are missing. I noticed mail was caching sent mail in Activity Window so I let it run. 1784 messages and attachments apparently were cached. I opened and closed mail and still no sent mail.
I looked at MobileMe and all my sent mail is on the server. I'm hesitant to do a sync until I know why the messages are off my laptop.

I doubt the messages are gone; Mail has probably just lost it's mind and doesn't realize they're there. So let's try rebuilding your Mail index.
1. Quit Mail if it's running.
2. Go to Home/Library/Mail and remove the Envelope Index file to your Desktop.
3. Restart Mail and allow it to import your existing mailboxes; when it's done your index will have been rebuilt. Check to see whether or not your messages are back; if so, you can delete the old Envelope Index file on your Desktop.
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I have seen the posts about sent mail using MobileMe. As indicated by some respondents, it seems to me that there is a problem here that has not been addressed and that it is a recent one. Although my settings have not changed at all, sent mail is either missing or very much delayed in showing up on my computer and this is a recent phenomenon. Can anyone point to an "official" response from Apple that indicates what is going on and what, if anything, we can do to fix the problem. Thanks.

I have a user that is experiencing this problem on a G5 Mac Tower. After migrating his data from a laptop, he stating that certain e-mails are not showing up in his sent mail. Recipients of said e-mails are receiving them, but this is a problem for him. I can suggest the workaround but it will add an extra step to move these e-mails to the sent mail folder. Can anyone help, please? Thanks in advance!

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I have been hving some problems with Mail recently, three issues have become major Pains in the ***:
1. Just about every 3 or 4 emails that I send from my .mac account seem to go through but a copy or receipt of them don't show up in the "sent" mail folder/area.
2. If I reply to an email in my in box, it will show the little "you replied to this email arrow icon" but when I click on the arrow, it will say that the message "has been deleted or missing"
3. Lastly every 3-4 emails - As I am writing the note a window will pop up and say that the "email cannot be saved" but allows me to click "OK" and then continue typing the note and will sent it just fine.
Is there a master reset on Mail or can I reinstall just the Mail program ? ( i really don't want to do that) I ran disk utility and my drive seems to be fine, the permissions are good.
any help would be great.
thanks.
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I'm having the same problem, although it is not with a .mac account, it is with IMAP accounts, which to the best of my knowledge is the server type used by .mac.
The weird part about all of this is that I use several e-mail accounts on my computer... one of them is a POP3, the rest are IMAP. Historically every message I've sent, regardless of the account, has been stored in the Sent folder, now only mail being sent from the POP3 account is being stored.
After unchecking the feature to store sent mail on the server for one of the IMAP accounts and sending a test message from IMAP address to POP3 address everything seemed to be working fine.... but I don't like that I had to do that. One of the reasons I use IMAP is so that I don't have to worry about what e-mails are stored where, because I use multiple computers.... but once I start telling my portable Macbook to no longer store outgoing messages on the server.... that could become a problem for me.
I've tried rebuilding the mailboxes several times to no avail. (Although I'm not entirely sure what rebuild does, I thought it'd be worth a shot)
And yes, my network card settings are just fine.
It might be worth noting that I've done a substantial amount of software updates over the past few days, and if I knew how to get you a list of those, I would.

HELP: Sent mail boxes disappeared! see photo, thanks!

Hello everybody,
I need your help:
I have 5 mail accounts on Mail and yesterday I notice something unusual.
If I see the "inbox" accounts I see all 5 accounts but when I see the "sent" accounts I see only 3 accounts.
How can I fix it? Please see the attached picture.
Thank you for your help!

A little more info.
I ran the following applescript to get all properties of Window 1 ( default message viewer window).
tell application "Mail"
get properties of window 1
end tell
The results are:
{zoomed:false, closeable:true, resizable:true, miniaturized:false, document:missing value, bounds:{147, 272, 555, 633}, titled:true, floating:false, miniaturizable:true, zoomable:true, modal:false, class:window, name:"Previous Recipients", id:335, index:1, visible:true}
end tell
~ R

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Since I upgraded to Lion a few days ago, I have not been able to view the text of recently sent messages. For replies, the reply icon shows up and a message pops up when the icon is clicked, but the body perpetually "loads" and nothing displays. This same behavior happens when I double-click a sent email - the body perpetually loads. Older sent messages load fine.
This morning I rebuilt my Sent mailbox to see if it would show my sent mail bodies. Now I am missing most of my sent mail. Oddly, a few recent sent mails show up fine.
I had thousands of sent emails from all my interaction with clients and such. I really need these back. I use an Earthlink POP account. Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Scott

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Because simply moving the inbox box and sent box to folders on OnMyMac results in the loss of this quicklink. That is I can see the Reversed arrow - but it says the sent message has been moved and not traceable.

Well, if it is possible, here's how...
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Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail
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https://discussions.apple.com/message/16832350#16832350 follow the link user was having same problem. Solution was given.

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