Lost messages in Mail?

Hello, I just realized my Mail has not sent all the message I wrote this morning between 8am and 11am!
people have not received them. The messages are not in the Sent forlder, neither in the Drafts, or Spam, or Trash.
They just deseappeared them! one, only one of these messages was on my online yahoo account in the Sent folder.
Do you have any idea of WHERE I could find them?!
thanks a lot!
Sabrina

Hi Linc! I did it already (logging in by yahoo account) but I found indeed (only) 1 message, in this way. All the others are lost (in Mail as well as in the web interface)
And I exclude they have been actually sent since people have not received them....
thanx anyway!
Sab

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