Mail missing from "Sent Mail" folder.

I searched my sent mail files for an email I sent out about 3 months ago. To my amazement, everything in the file before the date of Sept. 23 opened up with a line that went something like: "In order to view this document, you must first go online and download it." When I checked in the menu, it showed that Mail was online. I tried rebuilding my mail and every sent letter before 9/23 was deleted. When I go to my backup files, Mail tells me that the files are not Mail files. I'm perplexed, and haven't a clue as to what to do. This is not the first time I have had lost mail problems. Is Mail full of major bugs? Should I go back to Entourage? I never had a problem when I used it, but hate using any Microsoft applications.
PowerMac 2 ghz G5 DP Mac OS X (10.4.3)

I have this same problem. My Sent Messages.mbox says it is 1.94 GB so I know the messages are there. So far, I have found no solutions. Hopefully someone out there has some info - please!

Similar Messages

Mail under Lion: sent mails do not appear in the sent folder. What is to do?

Mail under Lion: sent mails do not appear in the sent folder. What is to do?

897381 wrote:
So, Where sent messages are stored?
Because if I go into my email account nothing appears in the outbox?Of course not. Why would it appear in your e-mail reader's outbox when your e-mail reader did not send the e-mail ?
my Pl/sql looks like:
BEGIN
utl_mail.send(sender => '[email protected]',
recipients => '[email protected]',
subject => 'Test',
message => 'HOlix');
END;And this results in the Oracle database server to contact the mail server and send the mail. Your e-mail client is not part of this process. Your e-mail reader does not know about that e-mail. Your e-mail reader is a client- not a server. It has no reason to know what another e-mail client (your PL/SQL code) send or did not send.
You want an outbox? You need then to design and code one for your PL/SQL mail client.
I dont understand what happen?Perhaps you should read up on WHAT a mail (SMTP) server is, HOW it works, and WHAT a PPOP3/IMAP mailbox is, and HOW that works?

IMac Mail strips sender from sent mail

I'm helping a friend who has an unusual problem with Mail on their iMac (10.9.5).
This first part may be a red herring. There are four email accounts on the machine iCloud, Gmail, Yahoo, and one other linked to a domain name. For no apparent reason all four accounts suddenly stop working. If you take all accounts off-line and then back online again, sometimes three or four times, they will start working again. Similarly, if you restart the machine two or three times they will often start working again but stop after a couple of days. Both of these methods make no changes to any of the settings.
However, that is not the problem I'm looking for an answer to. The iCloud, Gmail and Yahoo accounts all work exactly as expected. The fourth account sends email OK but when it arrives it says "no sender". A machine running Windows, an iPad and an iPhone all have that account on them and are all using the same outgoing server settings but they can all send email without stripping the sender's details. The sender details do appear on the email in the Sent box of the iMac but not on the receiving machine. However, if the receiver looks at the full headers of the email, the Reply To Address is there.
I can only think of applying the 10.9.5 Combo Update or updating to 10.10. Any other suggestions?

Update released by Apple today can help you remove attachments from sent mails.
Open the sent mail: click on "MESSAGE", then go to REMOVE ATTACHMENTS.
And that's all.

Adobe Uninstaller missing from my utilities folder. How can I uninstall?

Adobe Uninstaller missing from my utilities folder. How can I uninstall?

You can try removing it from Add/Remove programs or try using the Creative Suite Cleaner Tool

Help needed! GMail sent items missing from Apple Mail!

I need your help to solve a problem that I've identified recently in Apple Mail with a GMail account:
I have a POP-enabled GMail account in Mail, but also with IMAP functionality enabled through GMail's webmail settings (probably because I access it also from my iPad).
However, I notice that my local "Sent" mailbox in Mail only contains some 140 messages, even if a visit to GMail's webmail page shows me that I have at least 1200 "sent" messages.
I must note that my advanced mailbox settings in Mail do NOT allow for automatic deletion of sent items.
So my question is: how to make sure that I do not lose ANY sent items from GMail or any other account for that matter (i.e., that whatever is sent remains in the local "sent" mailbox in Mail)? Am I missing something?
Thanks a lot in advance for your help.

Or am I saying something stupid?
No I don't think so. But from what you're saying, the only copies of sent messages on your computer will be what you are sending from the computer. The messages sent from the iPad or website are not stored on the computer. If it were all set as IMAP, they will be available on all devices.
Thanks a lot for your attentive reply - my only concern is that, when I activate IMAP, I won't be able anymore to have a steady copy of all items in my sent items folder on Apple Mail, nor to delete what I want at will.
Changing it to IMAP will make the all sent items available on the server to your computer, website, and other devices. They will always be there as long as you don't delete them from the server. The messages you manually delete will delete them from the server and all devices. If you want a local backup, then copy them to a local folder which will not remove them from the server or move them to a local folder which will delete them from the server.
Auto syncing does not in any way interfere with local folders on the Mac. The only IMAP folders you can sync are the inbox, sent, drafts, and junk. Inbox is the only mailbox that has to be synced (it's done automatically and you can't change it). I also sync the Sent and Trash. I don't sync (store messages on the server) the drafts or junk mailbox.
I don't understand what you mean by not being able to delete messages from the Inbox. I do it all the time. What happens when you delete it depends on your settings in gmail. Gmail has some peculiar settings like having a deleted items folder besides the Trash folder. The default is to delete from inbox, it goes to the deleted items folder. Delete it from there, and it goes to Trash. Delete it from trash to get rid of it. The fact is that the All Mail folder shows the message no matter what folder it in. I have mine set to move it straight to the trash when moved from the last visible IMAP folder. So, when I delete it from Mail's Inbox, it moves it to the trash just as local messages do.
If you plan to do your email from the computer only, then POP is fine. If you plan to use the website and iPad also, then IMAP is the way to go.
That way everything in mail is available no matter where you look at it. The only things you won't see is what you move to local folders.
Seems like you should go to gmail's website and read the help files to become more familiar with it. Also look at all the settings available (expecially the Labels Tab, Accounts tab, and Forwarding Tab. These settings will be what you will use mostly to customize how it works and flows with the Mac. If you're going to use IMAP, you need to understand what they do exactly and what you want them to do for you.
My sole objective: to keep ALL messages in Apple Mail (except those I expressly delete), as well as ALL messages in Google.
IMAP does exactly this for you already. By leaving it on the server, they are on the computer. In Mails preference settings in the Accounts / Advanced Tab, for IMAP accounts keep the setting for storing messages for offline viewing. That way Mail actually does store a copy locally until you delete it from the server. And that will be backed up with your computer backup.
And what you do delete from any device will duplicate it elsewhere.

Sent mail disappears from Sent folder - VERY ANNOYING!

Sometimes when I send mail it does not appear in the Sent folder, or appears very briefly before disappearing.
This is really annoying because I have no copy of the email to send it again, and have to check with the recipient to see if they got it. It happens fairly regularly but I haven't noticed any particular pattern. The lost mail does not appear in Mail on my Mac or on the MobileMe web version. Sometimes it reappears later on.
Does anyone else get this problem? Any clues as to what might be going on? Seems a fairly fatal flaw for an email application.

Hi Mike,
Here's what I would do...
Safe Boot , (holding Shift key down at bootup), off the HD & use Disk Utility from there to Repair Permissions.
In your Home folder. open Library folder, open Mail folder in that, look for the Envelope Index, and drag it to the Desktop.
Then in your Home folder. open Library folder, open Caches folder in that, look for the Mail, and drag it to the Desktop.Move Envelope Index to the Desktop in...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/Envelope Index
Move this folder to the Desktop...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Caches/Mail
Reboot.

Mail - "To Do" from Sent Email folder - Is placed into "On My Mac"

I have an IMAP account set-up in Mail that was working just fine. I have a folder in the "Reminders Section" in the left pane window. In the "To do" section I have 2 folders created for each of my IMAP accounts in addition there is a folder that was created automatically "On My Mac".
When I create a To Do from a mail message that arrives into my inbox the To do shows in the appropriate folder created for that account.
The issue that just arise is if i create a To do from a sent mail for one account the To Do does not get placed in the appropriate folder it gets placed in the "On My Mac" Folder. Now this only happens to one of the accounts, the other account places the To Do in the correct folder.
How to I change the settings to have the new To Do created from sent folder be placed into the correct folder and not the "On My Mac" Folder.
In addition how do I delete the "On My Mac" Folder from the Reminders Section
thanks

It all depends on what kind of email account you have. IMAP accounts (e.g. Gmail) will sync folders across devices. Exchange accounts will as well. POP3 accounts (e.g. AOL, Comcast, Verizon) will not sync folders. What kind of email account do you have? Consult your email provider if you're not sure. If it's POP3, see if they have an IMAP option.

Very old 'Sent' mail missing from mailbox - help?

I've got a question about (really) old mail in my Sent mailbox. I went today to look for some very old messages (around 9/2001), and the earliest mail available to me is from Jan 1, 2003.
Does Mail archive or delete mail after it passes a certain age?
If so, how can I find my old mail?
Jim

Jim, I had thought that if you select Never as time after which sent mesages are deleted that they would stay saved on your hard drive.

Sent mail missing from my Gmail account.

Yesterday I found several years of sent mail had gone from my gmail account on Mail and also in my web Gmail account. Fortunately I have Time Capsule as a back up and so I was able to restore my sent mail. That enabled me to explore when it happened. My sent mail was there on morning of 18 november but gone by morning of 19 November. Apple helpfully records the dates of updates and I ran the software up date for mavericks to fix bugs in Gmail on afternoon of 18 November. I looked at my Gmail mail preferences in Mail and was surprised to find sent mail set to delete sent mail on quitting Mail. That was not my setting ( I have not been into my Mail preferences for some weeks) and must have happened during the software update. I typically shut down my MacBook Pro at night so after the update on 18 November and shut down near midnight, my sent mail was deleted. So warning to check your Mail preferences for Gmail after running this update. If anyone has an explanation for why the Gmail sent mail settings changed with the software update I would be interested.

Hi APK25,
If your Sent messages aren't showing up where you expect them to, you may want to take a look at the following article:
Mail (Mountain Lion): If messages aren’t stored where expected on the mail server
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11810
Cheers,
- Brenden

Inbox Mail Missing from Upgrade to Tiger

I've just upgraded (Archive and Install) to 10.4.6 from 10.3.9. Everything seems ok, but I'm missing all of my old mail. All of my old SENT, DRAFT and TRASH mail is there, but only mail from today is in the INBOX.
Can anybody help?
Thanks,
Patrick

This is a known issue. The conversion from Mail 1.x to Mail 2.x is broken. Take a look at the following thread to better understand the problem:
Help! "You need to take this account online in order to download it."
In particular, you may want to take a look at the following article (also referenced in that thread) to learn what you might have done before upgrading to minimize the risk of this happening, and what you may do after fixing the problem to avoid similar issues from happening in the future. DON'T do now what the article suggests, though, as that would make things worse in the current situation:
Overstuffed mailbox is unexpectedly empty
More specifically, if this is a POP account, the following procedure should allow you to fix the Inbox problems:
1. Quit Mail.
2. Make a backup copy of the ~/Library/Mail folder, just in case something goes wrong while trying to fix the problem. 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 stored.
3. Create a new folder on the Desktop and name it however you wish (e.g. Inbox Old). It doesn't need to have an .mbox extension.
4. In the Finder, go to ~/Library/Mail/POP-username@mailserver/INBOX.mbox/.
5. Move the files mbox and Incoming_Mail out of INBOX.mbox, into the Inbox Old folder just created on the Desktop. These files contain all the messages that were in the mailbox before the upgrade to Tiger, and maybe even some messages that had been deleted. mbox is the most important. Incoming_Mail may or may not be present.
6. Move any strangely-named Messages-XXXXXX folder to the Desktop (not into the Inbox Old folder). These folders are to be deleted after fixing the problem. They are temporary folders created during an import or an indexing process, and Mail should have deleted them when done. Their presence is a clear indication that something didn't work as expected. If you've been using Mail after the conversion and have already tried to fix the problem by rebuilding the mailbox or something like that, they might contain messages that are neither in Messages proper nor in the mbox file, so keep them around until the problem is fixed.
7. Move everything else within INBOX.mbox, except the Messages folder, to the Trash.
The result of the above should be that INBOX.mbox contains the proper Messages folder only, and the Inbox Old folder on the Desktop contains the mbox and Incoming_Mail (if it exists) files only. Now, proceed as follows:
8. Open Mail.
9. The account's Inbox should properly display in Mail as many messages as *.emlx files are in ~/Library/Mail/POP-username@mailserver/INBOX.mbox/Messages/. If that's not the case, select the mailbox in Mail and do Mailbox > Rebuild.
10. In Mail, do File > Import Mailboxes, choose Other as the data format, and follow the instructions to import the Inbox Old folder that's on the Desktop. Do with the imported mail whatever you wish. You may move to the account's Inbox the messages that Mail failed to convert properly, and delete those that did get through and, hence, are duplicates now.
The following collection of AppleScripts has a Remove Duplicates script that can be useful for removing duplicate messages:
http://homepage.mac.com/aamann/Mail_Scripts.html
If all is well and you're not missing anything, the files on the Desktop can be deleted, although you may want to keep them for a while, just in case.
Ask for any clarifications or if you need further assistance.
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.

How can I capture email addresses from Sent mail???

This may sound strange, but I'm trying to capture all the email addresses in my sent mail folder. At my work I want to send a newsletter out to folks that I previously emailed to let them know about new products. I have about 6000 emails, per year, in my 3 years of sending emails on my machine. I want to see if there is a program that allows me to go thru my folder and capture all [email protected] addresses and then I can go thru them later and delete later.
Any thoughts?
Tom

There is a collection of AppleScripts called Mail Scripts you can download at this link.
http://homepage.mac.com/aamann/Mail_Scripts.html
The script to use from the collection of scripts is Add Addresses (Mail) which adds addresses found in the selected messages (in the header fields "From", "To", "Cc", and "Bcc") to the Address Book. This is much more flexible than the "Add Sender to Address Book" available in Mail and provides a convenient way for creating mailing lists.

Adding addresses from "sent" mail to address book?

I've been getting an enormous amount of spam since years now, too much even for Mail's bayesian filters to deal with. I had the idea of separating my mail from "known" and "unknown" senders into sub-folders, but I am having difficulty finding a way to set this up.
The best way I can come up with is to add all "known" contacts to the Address Book and have Mail filter out "unknown" mails based on that - the most reliable source of "known" addresses I would like to add to Address Book would be the mails I have answered or sent, or in other words, the "sent" folder. Yet I can find no way of adding "to" addresses (from mails in that folder) to Address Book, only "from" addresses (or "senders") - and since these mails are in the "sent" folder, the "sender" would be... me.
Has anyone tried to do something similar, or is there another way around this?
Thanks for any advice, best,
Sefu.

The Mail.app stores all message recipients in the list of Previous Recipients and the autofill feature pulls from the Address Book and the list of Previous Recipients.
At the Mail.app menu bar, go to Window and select Previous Recipients.
A previous recipient already entered in the Address Book has a vCard icon to the left of the name or email address. You can remove a previous recipient from the list or add a previous recipient to the Address Book that is not already entered.

Remove attachments from sent mail - how to?!

Hi all.
Sometimes I'd like to keep sent mails but remove the attachment(s) embedded in there. How can I do this?
Thanks in advance.

You're more than deserving.

All my gmail folders are missing from MAC mail.

I was using a gmail backup account to protect my MAC mail folders from being lost, as has happened before. And now They have all been jacked again.
I have found all the info. on my gmail account but I can not deem to import them back into MAC Mail. (I use MAC OSX 10.9.1)
I need help.
I have done all I have read about online:
1. All mail, checked to 'show'
2. IMAP enabled
3. POP mail disabled
Still all my folders are on my gmail account listed under labels...and in the left hand side in the folders area.
All I did to have this happen, is to have a password update, cause my gmail would not sync for some reason, and BOOM. Gone!
Yikes,
HELP!
CC

HELLO? ANYBODY OUT THERE LISTENING? I STILL HAVE ALL MY FOLDERS STOLEN BY GMAIL AND LISTED IN THEIR LABELS CATERGORY!
HELP!
Cynditjie

Mail - Yahoo IMAP sent mail not appearing

Hi all,
I've been trying to troubleshoot this without much success. I've an iphone and a MBP running Lion. I've several Yahoo and Gmail accounts, and they are all set up as IMAP accounts.
Receiving and viewing messages are fine. However, if I were to send an email using one of the Yahoo accounts via Mail on the MBP, it gets sent successfully, but that email does not appear within the 'server' sent mailbox, nor within my iPhone mail app. Gmail seems to work fine.
I've highlighted each relevant 'sent' mailbox on my mac and set it to 'Use this mailbox' within the Mailbox menu, but it has not made a difference.
Any ideas on how to resolve this?
Much appreciated.
Thanks!
Alvin

Sending is done via SMTP. What happened here is that SMTP accepted the mails for sending (thus, the mail client put them in the sent folder). From that moment on, SMTP needs to actually deliver mails to the recipient(s). Until this has happened, mails stay in the mail queue of your mail server.
You did not mention if the mails got eventually delivered, so here is a list of some possible reasons for late delivery or non-delivery:
-Receiving mail server does not respond
-Connectivity issues
-amavisd not running
-Mail got flagged as spam (non-delivery). This would happen if you are trying to send mail from a blacklisted IP (like dynamic IPs) and your mail server is not configured to bypass spam scans for authenticated users.
HTH,
Alex

Mail missing from "Sent Mail" folder.

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for