Mail.app stopped saving sent mail to server

A few days ago I searched for a sent email with what I knew to be a unique word I had used and it didn't get found. I looked at the Sent section (the one with the paper airplane) in the sidebar and noticed that there hadn't been any additions for two days even though I know I had sent email in that period.
I have an iMac and two iBooks, they all showed the same behavior, so nothing in the Preferences had been changed.
My default email name is an AOL account. I went to their webmail site, and a new email sent from there showed up in the Sent section of Mail.app.
I downloaded the Thunderbird email client, and mail sent from there with my AOL name shows up in Mail.app Sent.
So Thunderbird and AOL webmail will send mail from my AOL account and have it show up as sent but Mail.app won't.
Anyone else have this problem?
Done all the usual stuff, permission repair, directory rebuild, reboot, even a complete reinstall of the OS.

Looks like AOK has fessed up to the problem:
"I have never had a problem with my aol mail until Dec 18. I can no longer see my sent emails. I am using a MAC and accessing AOL through Mac. Very frustrating. What is going on?
Official
AOLMailMat Answered:
This is an issue we are aware of; we are working on a solution that should be released next week. I have added your username to my list, and will follow up as soon as I have more information."
http://aolanswers.com/questions/aolmail_folders_862528158153087/issue_aware_working_solution350707381124346

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