Local Sent Folder Sorting Issue

Hey there,
I have several IMAP accounts and when they start to get a little full, I move a bunch of the oldest messages to a Local Inbox for archiving. This works fine for the incoming, but not so well for the sent emails.
I made a Local Sent folder and dragged a bunch of older emails to it. But when I I click on that folder to view them, they always show the TO: field and not the FROM: field. It seems that the which columns to view setting is global for all folders unless they are one of the special SENT, JUNK,TRASH.
I can't figure out a way to tell Mail to treat/view this Local Sent folder like a SENT folder and show me the TO: instead of the FROM: field.
Anyone?
Thanks!

Hi pizzafilms.
You can choose which columns are displayed by choosing the appropriate options from View > Columns or from the contextual menu that appears if you ctrl-click on a column header.
Note, however, that column view settings are indeed stored globally for all mailboxes. You cannot change them for one mailbox without also affecting the rest, except Mail allows you to have slightly different From/To and Date Sent/Date Received settings for Sent. All the other mailboxes are shown like Inbox, regardless of whether they contain received or sent messages. Only whether mail is organized by thread can be set independently for each mailbox.

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To save sent messages for IMAP accounts:
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To store copies of messages you send on the mail server, choose Mail > Preferences, click Accounts, and select an account. Click Mailbox Behaviors and select “Store sent messages on the server.” _*If this option is not selected, sent messages are stored on your computer and you won’t be able to see them if you check your mail from another computer._*
Yet if I disable the save sent messages on the server I can find NO sent messages in any folder in Mail on the local computer. If I ENABLE save sent messages on the server a copy of all sent messages is correctly saved on the server.
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Obviously, I could do an automatic CC on all sent messages, and see if I can create a rule to automatically move those messages to my local sent folder, but that sure seems like using a sledge hammer to swat a fly approach.
Does Mail not really do what I want, or do I have something messed up?

I just enabled the "store messages on server" selection on my mac mail for the same issue. I wanted my sent items viewable on all computers as I had before. I think it must have changed during the "mobile me" switchover.
Now that I have made that selection, all my "sent" mail disappeared immediately, but I found it all further down in my Left Column folder area, in a section called " On My Mac" I found another sent messages folder. They all went there from my .mac account, when I selected "store a copy on server" . I have now sent off my first new message from my .mac account, and it shows up as the only "sent" message, on all computers with my account. All the other messages are in the other folder, described above.
Definitely something changed with the "mobileme" migration and it's not quite right. It's light starting over again.
But in my case the messages are there, just in a different location.

How can I delete messages from the local Sent folder without deleting from the remote server?

I am running out of disk space on my local machine. Analysing this, I can see that a large amount of space is being taken up by local storage of Sent emails from my IMAP synchronised account.
I do not see how I can delete the local copies from my PC without them being deleted from the Server as well. There is an account setting option under Synchronisation and Storage to delete messages, but it says they will be deleted from both the local machine and the remote server.
I need to keep the server versions as these are business accounts and it is important I have all my old messages stored somewhere.

Short answer: get a bigger hard disk.
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Since you mentioned this is important business mail, you shouldn't take chances.

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Hi,
Are you talking about saving as draft?
Sent mails are automatically saved both in phone as well as on server. Is this resolved your issue?
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I've recently received my E72.
The built-in mail application is missing one major function: It cannot automatically place sent mail in the "sent" folder on the IMAP-server, only in the LOCAL sent folder. Absolutely no options for changing this exists. If I try to move a message (Actions -> Move message) from the local sent folder to the IMAP sent folder, all I get in the maplisting for the destination folder is "(no data)". If I try to move a message from the inbox, I can see the full IMAP map listing, and move the message anywhere without a problem.
The only workaround is putting the sending account as bcc, and then move the message afterwards from the inbox to the IMAP sent folder. This is a really big hassle when you send a lot of mails.
I've tried to upgrade the phone software, remove the account and recreate it, rebooted the phone a million times, reset the phone to factory settings, tried with other IMAP accounts, and so on.
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that's what I meant: the server's sent folder is correctly subscribed? You can see it among the "other folders" of your account? When you enter your account , on top left of the windows you'd see a little window as default with "inbox" selected. If you explode it by clicking, you'd see the "other folders" choice, clicking on it you should explode all the subscribed servers, and amond them the "sent" server's folder? That should be the clue that it has been correctly subscribed and , hence, you'd see it as a destination folder too when copyng/moving your messages..
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Is there any way to have Mail automatically use our default "Sent" folder?

We are a small college, with a fair number of users who use Macs and iOS devices, and we run an IMAP mail server. By default, our accounts are configured with Sent, Trash, Drafts, and Junk folders. Apple's Mail.app insists on "Sent Messages" and "Deleted Messages" rather than "Sent" and "Trash".
We instruct our users to use the menu command Mailbox > Use This Mailbox For > commands to select our server's folders on their desktops, and on iOS to use the Settings > Mail > Account > Advanced, but this is tedious and annoying. Most users get it about half right, so that some devices use our default "Sent", and some use "Sent Messages". (This happens with Trash as well, but most users are not concerned if their Trash differs device to device.)
Is there any server setting that can hint to Mail.app that it should use "Sent" rather than "Sent Messages"?
Apple has a support document about this issue, "Mountain Lion Mail: If messages aren't stored where expected on the server" ( http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11810 ).
However, that doc (and the similar one for Snow Leopard) merely says, "When Mail stores messages on the server, it looks for specific mailboxes, by name, in which to put the messages. If Mail doesn’t find those mailboxes on the server, it tries to create them on the server or, failing that, on your Mac."
The document does not specify what the "specific mailboxes" are, and certainly does not suggest that there is any way to have it cooperate better with our server, but perhaps there is a way?
(If I was trying to be a good IMAP client, I might look for any of "Sent", "Sent Messages", or "Sent Items", and use what I found before going to the next step of creating my own folder. Hard to imagine that any IMAP account would be initially configured without some "Sent" folder, so why not try to discover what the user has before pig-headly making your own.)

Unfortunately, I have not found a consise way to explain this to the general user, just a huge wall of text to work around something that Apple got wrong the first time they created an IMAP client, and has stubbornly persited with. Here's our documentation for this silly problem:
Special Folders on IMAP
The basic idea is that all IMAP mail programs keep all your mail on our server, so that, e.g. when you read or reply to a message, all of your devices can then show that message as read and replied to.
By convention, each IMAP program treats a few folders on the server as "Special", such as a "Trash" folder, that deleted messages get moved to, and a "Sent" folder, where each message you send gets copied. When they all pick the same special folders, all of your devices will show the same view of your mail. However, if different devices use different server folders for their "special" Sent folder, then the mail from these two devices will wind up in two different places, and be harder to find.
Unfortunately, Apple's Mail programs are particularly obscure and obtuse in the way they treat these folders: They show their special Sent and Trash folders on screen with the obvious names "Sent" and "Trash", but secretly, under the covers, they insist on using folders named, "Sent Messages" and "Deleted Messages" instead. Even if the server already has perfectly usable "Sent" and "Trash" folders, Apple clients will ignore them and create their own special case "special" folders.
If you only ever use Apple devices to look at your IMAP mail, you might never even notice their deception. But, if you sometimes use another mail client, such as webmail, you will encounter the confusing truth: When we created your account for the very first time, we add a "Sent" folder (actually named "Sent") and a Trash folder, named "Trash", and this is what everything except Apple's mail will use by default, because those folders are already their the first time the client connects to your account. However, even though Apple shows your special sent folder at the top of the list, with a paper-airplane icon, and labels it "Sent", in fact they ignore the existing "Sent" folder and make and use their own "Sent Messages."
SO, if you send some mail from webmail, it will be in your actual "Sent" folder, whereas if you send it from an Apple mail program, it will be put into your "Sent Messages" folder. If you look into either "Sent" special folder, you'll only find part of your previously sent mail.
Similarly for Trash, though most users find it more problematic to have two different Sent collections than to have multiple trash buckets.
To unify things, you can either set your non-Apple mail programs to use "Sent Messages" and "Deleted Items"; OR, you can set all of your Apple devices to use "Sent" and "Trash". Doesn't really matter which way you go, though if a majority of your devices are doing it a particular way, you should change the non-matching devices to agree with the majority.
(All clear so far? Why did Apple make this so hard? It would have been utterly simple for them to check for an existing "Sent" folder, and to use one if there is one, rather than to always stubbornly create and use a new "Sent Messages" folder. Then, they add to the problem by pretending that their new "Sent Messages" folder is really just named "Sent". Stupidity all the way down.)
Anyways, to find out what the majority of your devices are doing, check them each to see which of the "sent" folders shows up in the "normal" list of folders rather than in the "special" location, that is, what folder name is in the list at the bottom of the folder area, rather than up at the special "Sent" icon, (because the special one will always be labeled "Sent", not matter what the actual folder name is).
For example, say that on all-but-one of your mail setups, you see a "Sent Messages" folder down in the normal list, and on the other device, you see "Sent" down in the normal list.
In that case, you'd want to set the "different" device to make the folder named "Sent" be the special one, instead of the "Sent Messages" that it was currently using.
Conversely, if all but one showed "Sent" down in the regular folder area, and only one showed "Sent Messages", then you'd want to make "Sent Messages" the special folder on the odd device.
Once you have decided, see the specific sections below for the procedure to set the "special" folders for Apple's Mail.app on a Mac, Apple's Mail on an iPhone/Pad/Pod, or for RoundCube webmail, or for Thunderbird.
Once you have every device using the same sent folder, then you can move any messages from the "extra" version of the folder into your special folder, and then you can delete the extra folder. (If you delete this extra folder and it later re-appears, then it means one of your mail programs is still using it as its "special" folder, and recreating it.)
Similarly for Trash, though probably you could delete the extra trash folder without moving the files, because they are trash.
Here are the details for changing the Special Mail Folders on the systems we use:
A) iPhone, iPad, iPod:
As a first step, use Settings > Mail to set your device to read your email account, then open the Mail program so that it will read the list of all of your folders from the mail server. After that, go back to Settings > Mail to make sure it is using the desired special mailboxes on the server.
Select your IMAP account in the settings tool, and then press the button for "Advanced" settings, and find the list of special mailboxes, e.g. Sent, Trash, Drafts. For each, scroll through the list of folders on the server to choose the folder you wish to use for that function.
Note: iPhones/Pads/Pods also can be set to keep sent mail locally on the device. This is a spectacularly stupid choice for normal IMAP, as none of your other devices will be able to see the messages you send from your phone.
B) Mail.app on Mac desktops and laptops:
Set up mail so that it reads your messages and folders from the mail server.
Select the "Sent" folder that you wish to use in the list of folders at the lower left of the mail window. (On newer Macs, the folders may be hidden by default. Use the "View > Show Folder List" menu command to display them if necessary.)
Use the menu command "Mailbox > Use This Mailbox For > Sent" to specify that the selected mail box is the special folder for sent mail, and similarly for your Trash, Junk, or Drafts folders.
C) RoundCube Webmail (with the standard skin):
Login to your webmail site , and select the "Settings" icon in the upper right of the window, which has a "Gear" icon. This will display a "Settings" panel with buttons for "Preferences", "Folders", and "Identities" settings. When you first open the Settings panel, the "Section" panel shows a row of buttons for different Preferences.
Click "Special Folders" in the "Section" list to open a list of "Drafts", "Sent", "Junk", and "Trash". Each special folder is followed by a menu of all your server folders. Select the server folder to use for each special folder.
D): Thunderbird:
After you have set up your connection to your IMAP account, click "Get Mail" to fetch your existing mail and list of folders on the server.
Next, select the menu command "Options > Account Settings…" (Note that on current versions of Thunderbird, the default menu drops down from an icon of three horizontal bars, in the upper right corner of the mail window. You can use the Options command in this menu to display a menu bar at the top of the Thunderbird window if you wish. With the full menu, the menu command to access the special folders settings is "Tools > Account Settings…"
Select "Copies and Folders" in the list at the left of the Account Settings window. This panel has a section for Sent mail, Archives, Drafts, and Templates. Select "Junk Settings" in the list at left to specify the location of the Junk special folder.
For each special folder, the default choice is the the folder on the server with the "typical" name, e.g. "Sent" for sent, and "Trash" for trash. To use a different name, select the "Other:" option for the folder, and then choose the desired folder from the list of folders on the server.
Oof! That's a lot of explaining for a issue that Apple should have gotten right in the first place, or at least should have fixed in their next several tries. It would not break any existing functionality if they merely used whatever folder the server had created, and only made their own if there was none.

Exchange – Emails in sent folder have no sender information in header

Hey Everybody,
when I send emails with my exchange account in mail.app the copy of the email that is stored in the sent folder is missing the sender information in its header. The "from" column is empty, however, it should say my name there.
Pretty annoying because I use smart folders to organize my mails that depend on the sender information in the header. The only workaround I found so far is using imap in mail.app instead of exchange – but that's not a really satisfying solution.
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Open Apple Contacts and verify your contact as "My Card". Microsoft calls this card "This is me". It's not stored on Exchange but in the local Outlook Address Book. I don't use Exchange so not sure if Apple will let you select your contact on Exchange contacts. You might need to select the local or iCloud contact.
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11582
Once you set "My Card", check to see if the issue is fixed.
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Let's eliminate issues in your User's folder by testing in a new User.
CREATE A NEW USER
Go to System Preferences --> Create a New User in Accounts. Switch to the New User by logging out/in or use Fast User Switching.
Add your Exchange account to Mail.
Do you still see the issue?
If yes, then the problem is with your base files.
If no, then the problem is in your User's folder.
Option to repair Mail in your User's folder:
Go to your User's Library folder. (if you don't know how to find, see this link.)
Scroll to Mail folder.
Select the V2 > MailData folder.
Delete any files in MailData with envelope in the name. (should be 3)
You can test Mail after deleting envelope files. When you open Mail it will re-index your files.
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Go to Containers in the User's Library folder.
Delete the com.apple.mail folder.
Go to Preferences in the User's Library folder.
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Log out under the Apple in the Menu bar
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Mail & Yahoo: how can I get "Sent" folder to synch, like the "Inbox"?

Happy to be back in Mac, after 15yrs of corporate MS boredom. And TIA for your help with my little 'set-up' problem.
I'd like that my "Sent" mailbox (in Mail.app) mimic the functionality of my "Inbox" mailbox, as relates to my Yahoo!Plus email account. What do I mean? My Inbox associated with my Yahoo account, i.e. in the Mail sidebar under the higher-level Inbox mailbox, contains every email that was in my Inbox on the Yahoo server (and still is, since I chose not to "Remove a copy from the server after retrieving a message, in Mail>Prefs>Accts>Advanced pane).
But the "Sent" mailbox associated with my Yahoo account only contains the messages I send from the Mail application (clearly only when I choose to use the Yahoo account). Also, none of these messages appear in the Sent folder on the Yahoo server, i.e. when I go to the Yahoo site via a web browser, which I'll do when not carrying the Mac with me.
Otherwise, setting up Mail to work with Yahoo was a breeze. N.B. I pay the $20/yr fee for the Mail Plus account/service, so didn't get stuck with the "pay to play" issue that many others have when trying to set up their free Yahoo acct w/Mail.
I recall having this "Sent" folder functionality when I was using Outlook a couple of years ago, hence the answer to 'why would this guy have been paying $20 a year...?'. And I don't/won't go there on my Mac!
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Necessity being the Mother of invention, I built a crude work-around and fixed half of the problem. I'd still be interested to hear if any of you have 'solved' the other half.
First half fix: On the mail.yahoo.com site, go to the Sent folders and select all of the messages there. Then, in the header, click on the "Move..." button and then select the "Inbox" as the destination. (N.B. This can not be undone; You can move messages from the Inbox to other folders, but not to your Sent folder. Go figure.) The next time you synch (or "Get Mail") from the Mac's Mail app, these "sent" messages will appear in your Inbox. Sort the Inbox by sender and move the messages sent by you to your "Sent" mailbox folder.
Now you've got a complete history of emails, both sent and received, on your Mac.
Second problem not fixed: Messages sent from the Mail app do not appear in the "Sent" folder on mail.yahoo website. So while your Inbox is synchronized between your Mac and your yahoo! account, your Sent items are not.
I was hoping that synching my Mac Mail with .Mac would allow me to see my sent messages remotely, from any internet browser. But at first blush, that dog don't hunt.
Any advice - short of a wholesale move to my @mac.com email - would be appreciated greatly. Even if the advice is "give up the ghost; can't be done; give up the yahoo email"!
Cheers.
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All messages in sent folder are gone! :(

Hi there,
All messages in the "Sent" folder in the Mail application are gone!
I had around 2,000 messages, some with large attachments.
Did "Mail" just deleted them?!
Could I somehow recover the lost messages?
Please help if you know anything about this unfortunate incident...
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You have adequate free hard drive space - with a 74.5 GB HD capacity, you should keep no less than 7.5 - 8 GB free.
What is the overall size of the Mail folder?
The Mail.app alone requires the same amount of free hard drive space as the overall size of the Mail folder for general housekeeping purposes during use. If you don't have adequate free hard drive space, application preference files can become corrupt or be lost and data loss can also occur.
Each email client has limits and with Jaguar/Panther Mail, you shouldn't allow a mailbox to exceed 1GB in size and with Tiger Mail, 2GB.
Better to utilize user created "On My Mac" mailboxes to sort received and sent messages by category not deleted that you need to save once a month or so. I've been using the Mail.app exclusively since Jaguar was introduced, thru Panther and now Tiger and I've never experienced the same. Before upgrading to Tiger, I didn't allow a mailbox to exceed 500 MB or so and I use the Rebuild Mailbox function on the most active mailboxes on a regular basis - once a month or every couple of weeks depending on activity.
I also use SuperDuper to maintain a bootable clone of my hard drive saved to an external Firewire drive.
Also, you wrote "When a mailbox has an "overstuffed" mailbox issue
which means the mailbox is corrupt, a good number of messages are
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-where should I start looking ?
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I'm using Apple Mail on a Macbook Pro. It was working just fine for months, but in the last couple of days I've been having a problem with my "Sent" folder. I have four accounts, each with their own folder in the Inbox and each with their own Sent folder. All of them are pop accounts. The problem I'm experiencing seems to be confined to a single Sent subfolder, which corresponds to a Gmail account.
Apple Mail seems to be scrambling the outgoing addresses that appear in the "To:" field in the list of sent mail. For example a message that I sent to "[email protected]" might show up in the sent mail list as being sent to "[email protected]", which is an address where I used to receive mail! When I click to read the message, the "To:" field on the message itself (and all the headers) appears correct. It's only in the list that there is a problem.
I tried all the obvious things: restarting the program, restarting the computer, and finally rebuilding the sent mail folder. Prior to rebuilding the mail folder it was only a couple of messages sent out in the last couple of days that were affected. After rebuilding, the problem seems to be affecting the entire folder. Every message has an incorrect address listed as its receiver. I rebuilt it again just to see what would happen, and it seemed to fix itself for a moment. However as soon as I clicked to another folder and clicked back, the list was screwed up again.
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Verify/repair the startup disk (not just permissions), as described here:
The Repair functions of Disk Utility: what's it all about?
After having fixed all the filesystem issues, if any, and ensuring that there’s enough space available on the startup disk (a few GB, plus the space needed to make a backup copy of the Mail folder), proceed as follows to re-create the whole index:
1. Quit Mail if it’s running.
2. In the Finder, go to ~/Library/Mail/. Make a backup copy of this folder, just in case something goes wrong, e.g. by dragging it to the Desktop while holding the Option (Alt) key down. This is where all your mail is locally stored.
3. Locate Envelope Index and move it to the Trash. If you see any other “Envelope Index”-named file there, delete it as well.
4. Open Mail. It will tell you that your mail needs to be “imported”. Click Continue and Mail will proceed to re-create Envelope Index — Mail says it’s “importing”, but it just re-creates the index if the mailboxes are already in Mail 2.x format.
Note: For those not familiarized with the ~/ notation, it refers to the user’s home folder. That is, ~/Library is the Library folder within the user’s home folder, i.e. /Users/username/Library.

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Half of my message that I try to send are not being saved in my sent folder. This is a huge problem causing lost documentation and copies of information and conversations I have had. The error message I get says that thunderbird was unable to save to my sent folder and asks if I would like to try again. If I say yes I get the same message over and over again until I give up and let the message be lost to cyberspace. What can I do to fix this issue and stop loosing valuable information for work?
I am using an HP laptop running windows 8.

What protocol is your email account using (POP or IMAP)?
If POP, you need to make sure your local disk space is enough to save the sent messages. Check where the copies are located by looking at the account settings under '''Copies & Folders'''. When using POP, I believe a copy needs to be saved on both sides: local and server.
If IMAP, the email server is where such copies are saved. You can also double-check such settings as mentioned above.
Finally, if your emails are too big, this may be a restriction of your email provider, perhaps get in touch with their support and inquire about this to rule it out as the cause of the problem. Could you share more details about the kind of emails that fail to have a local copy saved or is it for each and every email?

Sending email succeeds, but hangs forever trying to save to 'sent' folder

I have recently transferred to TB from Outlook. Running a Windows 7 machine, and imported my previous files and emails from Outlook.
I repeatedly have problems with TB hanging on the green bar when saving to the 'sent' folder. The email has sent Ok but it just sticks at the full green bar trying to save. If you cancel and try to save as a draft it will just hang too. Then I noticed that when this bug appears I can't move or delete any email in TB.
Problem will disappear temporarily if I restart TB. And seems to appear especially when laptop goes into sleep mode. Thought I could get round the problem by simply making sure TB was closed when I left the laptop so that I could restart when waking the machine but have now found that even when starting TB the problem is often there and I have to close and restart.

I've been using Thunderbird for 8 months and I haven't found a solution to this. I have several times thought I had found some thing/behavior/option that made it go away but it comes back. For awhile I thought that having the Thunderbird activity manager window up made the problem go away because I ran for several weeks like that without an incident. You'll see that posted in quite of few of the other threads as well. (Not specifically the activity manager - everyone has a period without the problem and they think it must be the last change they made - but it's never the same change.) For me the time between hangs has varied from approximately 4 hours to about 4 weeks so it's a pain to try to pin it on anything.
I've also compared add-ons and settings can can't find anything obviously in common with the others that have it. Happens in 24 - 3x versions at least. Compact/repairing seems to be a generic "try this" sort of solution for any odd behavior but doesn't seem to relate to this issue.
Also, I believe I have seen it reported on Windows, OS X and Linux with a wide selection of AVs an no AV in one case. So there seems to be a piece of core code that just mysteriously gets unhappy in conditions that no one has been able to pin down yet. If you ever find anything that works for you - please let us know!!!

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Hi,
I recently copied emails from my imap account to a local mail folder in apple mail. Now I see mails which have 0KB sized attachments. The attachment is still named correctly but has 0kB, so I cant open it. It happens not to all Mails and in some mails some attachments are working (bigger 0kB) and other files are 0kb.
Is there a reason behind this? What happens there?
I couldn't find something on google, thats why I ask here.
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Important update regarding Apple Mail and Yahoo! in particular (this does not apply to the Sent items/lost outgoing message problem): Apple Mail is not at fault! I lost several messages when I moved them from my Inbox and Sent folders to another custom folder, and I thought Apple Mail was at fault, but according yo Yahoo!, it seems that my problem was actually caused by a sync issue between another mobile device (an Android phone) and Yahoo! mail.
Here is part of Yahoo!'s e-mail regarding this issue:
We recently experienced an issue syncing emails for some of our users when accessing email from an IMAP device like an iPhone or an Android phone. Emails that you might have moved from your inbox to folders (including the trash folder) may have been temporarily unavailable. We fixed this issue, and recovered emails that may not have been synced to the right folder. [...] We have automatically added a folder called "Synced Messages" to your email account today located in the left navigation of your inbox.
I wonder if my occasional Sent folder issue is also a Yahoo! problem, not Apple Mail?
Going back to the corporate IMAP (i.e. non-Yahoo!) issue mentioned by Mitchell Group, what kind of e-mail server are you using? I have never experienced IMAP issues with my corporate e-mail server (Zimbra Collaborartion Suite on Linux) using Apple Mail (IMAP) as a client. My only headache, to this day, has been with Yahoo!

I am looking at the TB dashboard having just opened TB. On the left I see folders. The "sent" folder, lets say, is higher than the "outbox" folder. I want to

I am looking at the TB dashboard having just opened TB. On the left I see folders. The "sent" folder, lets say, is higher than the "outbox" folder. I want to put the "outbox" folder above the "sent" folder. How so I make that happen?

I know the addon will allow you to reorder the accounts, so you could put 'Local Folders' above another mail account.
It will also allow you to resort the folders within an account.
So if you have a Pop mail account that uses the 'Global Inbox' setup, then it should allow you to move the Outbox position within that special account.
But as the 'Outbox' is a 'Local Folder' folder, I'm not certain that you can move it out of 'Local Folders' and reposition into another account.
The method of moving folders is done via the Menu Bar.
'Tools' > 'Manually Sort Folders'
Select the folder and use the 'Move up' or 'Move down' buttons.
Then click on the 'Refresh folderpane' button to display the new sort order.

Local Sent Folder Sorting Issue

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