.Mac deleting my messages!?!

Yesterday I had over 400 messgaes in my inbox. I leave them there since there is a lot of business correspondence I reference.
Today I have 54 messages in my inbox; all I have done was run a .mac sync this morning.
The 400 missing messages do not appear in the trash or on the server at .Mac.
I could try and blame the sync, but some of the 54 remaining messages go back as far as June of 06. Why would some messages disappear while others, seemingly random, remain?
Ugh.

Thanks, Allan.
Problem solved. I was accessing my account from another computer (my mother-in-law's new Mini) and I set up new mailboxes for myself on that computer. Apparently, the messages were sitting in a mailbox not yet created on my home computer...
Thank you kindly for your swift response.
whew

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I am sure that your iPhone has absolutely nothing to do with this. Your iPhone and iTunes does not sync messages in Mail. All that is sync'd is simply the account information (name, type, password).
What is more likely happening, is that you have set Mail to not retain sent messages locally, and the server side with sent messages to be auto deleted once sent, or upon quitting Mail. Or you have set up IMAP like settings, in that a deletion on one client (either Mail or iPhone) deletes the message from the server
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zac
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7:41 PM Tuesday; May 14, 2013
 iMac 2.5Ghz 5i 2011 (Mountain Lion 10.8.3)
 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
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.Mac deleting my messages!?!

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