Mail disappear in inbox

Mail I get stays in the inbox for one week. Then they disappears. They are not in the trashcan and not in inbox. But they are still on my Mac. What is happening? In the trashcan it's only the mails I have put there. There are no sign of the emails who has disappeard. Where are they and how do I get them back?

you will always have a certain time lag for sending email depending on your email server, your internet connection speed, your router or wireless equipement and finally the outgoing settings. have you checked with your email provider if they are having issues? have you checked with your isp if there are issues? have you checked in your outgoing server settings if you have the correct info - for the latter go to mail>preferences>accounts>account info, go to the outgoing server list, check edit server list, then in both available panes, check if the info is correct and what your email provider is saying should be entered for outgoing server and port.
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Mail disappears from Inbox

Email that had been downloaded and was visible/readable in my inbox all of a sudden disappears - Subject is visible, but body of message is empty with an italicized msg:
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The account HAD been taken online, the mail (in most cases) had been downloaded from the server, and was read-able previously.
When I quit and reboot, sometimes it will all reappear, but sometimes it will not. Even when I installed Tiger, the problem is persisting.
PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.3) using Mail

Amar,
Welcome to the Discussions.
We will likely need much more information about this report, but first, sort your Inbox on Message Number, rather than Date. If the Date you are displaying, and sorting on, is the Date Sent, and the sending computer's date is wrongly set, they could be far down in your Inbox. If you do not display message number in your Inbox, click on View in the Menubar, place your cursor on Columns and choose Number.
If this speculation is not the situation, please tell us the history of your mailboxes -- did they exist when running Panther, and get converted?
More info, please.
PowerMac G5 Dual 2.5, iBook, and QS G4 867 Mac OS X (10.4.4)

E-mail disappeared from inbox

Important e-mail gone! Vanished! Vaporized! Is there a way to retrieve something like this. I know for a FACT I did not delete.
Just another reason to hate Apple

I'm practically Amish when it comes to this stuff so I'm limited to opening and deleting (I've got a ton of e mails in my deleted account and its not there either.
Thank you for the input
Apple = Overrated

Mail in my inbox just disappears after a few weeks, why?

Mail in my inbox stays there for a few weeks and then disappears, only leaving me a few weeks worth of messages - similarly on my .mac webmail. Can't find any preferences to stop this happening.
Any Ideas?

The same behaviour does not happen with the iMac and so
I use this as backup.
Well, it doesn’t happen there because it stores mail locally instead of on the server but, interestingly enough, the iMac is almost certainly the culprit. What are your Preferences > Accounts > Advanced > Remove copy from server settings there?
I never changed the iMac .mac account from POP to .mac as I
would have had to delete the account and create a new one
and would have thus lost everything.
This isn’t entirely correct. For one thing, you don’t have to delete the POP account first. You can set up the account as .Mac without deleting the POP account, transfer your mail from the POP account’s mailboxes to the .Mac account’s mailboxes, and delete the POP account afterwards. Alternatively, you could create custom “On My Mac” mailboxes and move your mail from the POP account’s mailboxes into them before deleting the account.
Before doing anything, however, be sure to quit Mail and make a backup copy of the ~/Library/Mail folder, just in case something goes wrong. You can do this in the Finder by dragging the folder to the Desktop while holding the Option (Alt) key down, for example. This is where all your mail is locally stored.
Note: For those not familiarized with the ~/ notation, it refers to the user's home folder, i.e. ~/Library is the Library folder within the user's home folder.

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How did you try to move the account's Inbox mailbox - from the mailboxes drawer to another location in the mailboxes drawer, or manually via the Finder at Home > Library > Mail with the Mail.app quit before doing so?
And where did you try to move the account's Inbox mailbox to?
To delete these emails from the new Inbox mailbox that was created, quit Mail first and using the Finder, go to Home > Library > Mail > this POP account named folder > Inbox.mbox.
Move the Inbox.mbox to the Desktop.
What else is currently available in this POP account named folder - all file and folder names?
Launch Mail and a new Inbox.mbox will be created automatically within the POP account named folder.

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I have just installed Lion on my Mac Pro and am having problems with the Mail App.
I have been running my own mail server for the last eight years on a Linux box, Postfix, with IMAP on top. This has been reliable and pretty foolproof. It supports most of my family and has been running happily with Thunderbird (all versions), most Linux mail clients and all Apple Mail versions upto (but not including Lion Mail), two iPad's and my iPhone.
Nothing has changed on the mail server for the last few months.
After installing Lion, I configured mail to connect to the mail server as normal using IMAP. No difference in configuration to any other install.
Mail downloads all my folders as per normal and then downloads my INBOX. I run my INBOX with mail going back to the begining of the year so circa 1,200 messages.
Next thing is my INBOX is now empty, I haven't asked the Lion Mail app to delete the mail but it has. Odd.
I have a backup of the current mail and load that back in. Start up mail again in Lion and a couple of minutes later, deleted. Nothing in the trash folder, no warning at all.
I search the internet and finds this thread https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3206902?start=0&tstart=0 which seems similar to my problem. I clear all my mail preferences out, I remove all the directories from the~/Library, restart Lion mail, re-enter my and guess what, same behavior as before. I can copy mail into the INBOX and it's deleted, I can receive mail and it's deleted. No warning.
No rules are set up to delete any mail, I have no spam filter installed on Lion, I can sit and watch it just disappear. This problem does not occur on previous versions of Apple mail, e.g. Snow Leopard.
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OK, I now appear to have the problem.
I installed OS X Server on my Mac Pro some weeks ago. One change I made was to setup the Calender Server to prepare for a move from my separate Snow Leopard Server. As part of setting the Calendar Server up it requires an e-mail address. This was set last last week.
It now appears that the Calendar Server pulls all e-mail from the e-mail address provided on the mail server, this is different (or it appears to be different) to the behaviour from Snow Leopard Server. The configuration for each is very different from the interfaces.
After turning off the Calender Server, it looks as if the mail is now staying on the server.

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bob [ you knew my tongue was firmly in cheek - well, mostly ]
seems a futile effort. as I said before, messages are SMALL. For example, the notice of your post at Jan 14, 2015 4:10 PM CST/US when saved as from MS Entourage:
These clearly are BIGGER than the space they use in the Entourage database.
I do not know what methods are used to store on iPad, but for the sake of discussion, let's use Mac Finder filesize of HTML. Still seems a piddly amount compared to all the media stored locally - or is it all really on iCloud?
At any rate, nice guy that you are, why not illustrate How to get vkgibson's issue fixed now that we accept why?
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Hey hpr3
That did help reveal some boxes I don't use thanks for the tip, but I used to have a bunch of sub accounts that I created to sort my emails into manageable groups and these have disappeared. ANy ideas that? Regards

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What type of accounts are these (POP, IMAP)?
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Take a look at the contents of the ~/Library/Mail/ folder. Do you see account folders for both the old and the new account there?
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Log into your account at the providers web mail page and look for any retention options that might be there. Do not put too much into what their help desk tells you. Most help desk agents are lucky to know that the ringing sound means to answer the phone.

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lost all my mail in my inbox +my mail account settings except @mac.com after a crash of my system.
When I rebooted my mac, a pop-up from mail was telling me that it had created a new folder called "distributed" in replacement of the usual "sent items" folder. This last folder is still there but is empty.
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Hi Jake, and a warm welcome to the forums!
Could be many things, we should start with this...
"Try Disk Utility
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2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
*Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.*
3. Click the First Aid tab.
4. Click the disclosure triangle to the left of the hard drive icon to display the names of your hard disk volumes and partitions.
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6. Click Repair. Disk Utility checks and repairs the disk."
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
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