Mail in OS Mavericks HELP!!! Why do some of my emails not send despite the sent sound playing?

Dear Mac Community
I have a MacBook Pro running OS 10.9.1 and everything is fully updated.
I use the Mac Mail programme to send and receive Gmail emails as I have done for many years.
Recently, I started to notice a worrying problem. Every 10 or 20 emails or so, (I haven't noticed a specific regularity), I write an email and press send. The mail seems to send fine and I get the sound notifying me it has left the outbox. However, when searching for a reply, I find that in fact it is not in sent items, and it has only been located in Archive - Gmail (all mail) or Trash - Gmail, and not in any sent folder. Indeed, when I ask the recipient if it has been received they say no.
Since the mail programme is telling me at the time of sending there isn't a problem, how can I ensure that all emails are sending correctly without checking 'sent items' every time I send one, which would be deeply frustrating. I've only noticed this a few times because key emails haven't been replied to - but it's possible that there have been several other incidences I haven't been aware of.
I don't know if this is related, but another similar problem occasionally arises, whereby an email pops in on my phone (iPhone 5s also using mac mail programme for gmail) but not on the computer. In fact I can't see it unless I click on the 'Gmail Archive' folder where it appears, and copy it manually into my inbox. The regularity of this seems to be equal to that of the former problem, which is why I wondered if it could be related.
All help gratefully appreciated
Thanks
MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012), OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)

In that case your email provider's server is having difficulties to deliver the message to the recipients email provider server.
This has got nothing to do with Thunderbird.
There is little you can do though. You may have the recipient to check with his email provider if they have any issues.

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