Messages disappear from mail app?

since i changed my comp and automaticly transfer from my old one, a power book,every day i open the mail app i find every time less messages inbox and sent...
i found some messages in librery they have a number and emlx(?)
does anybody can help me i don't want to loose all the info i have in my mail!

In the Finder, go to ~/Library/Mail/. With that folder open, do Edit > Select All (⌘A), then Edit > Copy (⌘C), and paste it in your reply to this post, to let me see the names of the files and folders present at the root level of the Mail folder.
Before actually posting that information, you may edit it so that the file/folder names do not reveal any details you wish to keep private, e.g. you may replace any real username with "username" to hide your real email address if you wish; similarly, you may disguise any domain names you don't want to be revealed. Try to be consistent in how you disguise those details, though, as we may need to refer to them in subsequent posts.
Now, go to ~/Library/Mail/Mailboxes/. With that folder open, repeat the process to let me see the names of the files and folders it contains. Again, you may disguise any mailbox names you wish to keep private. Be careful to not alter any suffixes, though.
Finally, locate the account folders within ~/Library/Mail/ -- their name begins with the account type (POP, IMAP, Mac), followed by the account username and the incoming mail server. For each account folder, repeat the process to let me see the names of the files and folders it contains.
Let me know which are the mailboxes that have the problem.
Note: For those not familiarized with the ~/ notation, it refers to the user's home folder. You can easily locate any of the folders referred to in this post by copying the file path here, doing Go > Go to Folder in the Finder, and pasting the file path there.

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I checked the threads. This has been a problem for some, but not me before that I remember, and I haven't come across a solution that works for me.
This morning I had an email message disappear after I tried to send it. Sometime later I heard the swoosh sound, and it's there in the sent mailbox, so I didn't think much about it. This evening, after taking much time to carefully compose a long detailed technical message to some actors and performers in a musical I'm producing, I clicked send, and the message disappeared. No draft, no sent, and no "swoosh". About a minute later, I heard a swoosh. But nothing else happened.
I'm about losing my **** right here. The most frustrating feeling ever.
Now, an hour later, still no message. I've checked everywhere I could think of. I looked in the mail folders in the Library. I found the email I sent prior to this. It's late at night, and I have no way of finding out whether it was received (somehow I doubt it), and now I'm worried some other critical messages I've sent out may have also vanished.
I depend on email for my work, and I've counted on mail to do the job for many years. It's always worked for me. Now this. I'd love to keep using mail, but I depend on my email for business, and I can't afford for this to ever happen again.
Has anyone else experienced this lately and has anyone else come up with a solution? Until I do, I'm taking special precautions such as manually copying the message as I go/revise and pasting/saving into text. I wish I didn't have to, but I obvioulsy can't count on mail.

Please see my post and how it was resolved:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1181356&tstart=0
When I had that issue, I tried using Apple Mail app and noticed that Sent Mails are getting lost. Try sending an email using WebMail. You might see similar "Permission Denied" error. Try restarting the server and see if the issue still exists.

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A friend of mine running OSX 10.4.11 with all Apple updates on an Intel iMac about a year and half old, is having problems with Mail. She seems to have lost all her Sent messages from before Jan. 24th. As she put it: "Came in on 1/25, to find only three message left in my sent messages" dating 1/24." She's using an IMAP account, and a broadband Ethernet DSL modem.
Personally I rarely use Mail, preferring Mailsmith/POP, so am not that familiar with the app - or with IMAP. After looking up Mail Help I suggested she first rebuild the Sent folder and instructed her how to do that over the phone. It went through it's paces but didn't improve the situation. Sent mailbox still only contains messages dating from Jan.24th. There should be several years of Sent messages in that box.
Then I had her try the next thing on the Help page, which was reindexing Mail, done by quitting Mail, removing certain files from the ~/Library/Mail folder, launching Mail and waiting for it to retrieve stuff from the server. That didn't solve the problem either. The other mailboxes seem to have all their messages intact, and the Mail app seems to be working normally otherwise. She hasn't done a backup since the problem occurred, but restoring from that would eliminate all the mail she has received since.
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Hopefully someone with more knowledge will pitch in. In my friend's case it isn't a dot mac account.
Could it be related to the allocated space on the server being too full? There are several years of email stored there and it's an office, so I imagine there's a lot of mail. Not being very familiar with IMAP I don't know if the stored mail could get messed up if there isn't much room left on the server.

Messages disappearing from Mail

Hi,
I use an iMac 8,1 OS 10.5.8
For my email, I have two addresses and messages are downloaded to the Mail software. My Mail file is enormous (23GB) because I have all my sent and received emails for works purposes. I regularly copy the whole thing back and forth between my iMac and iBook via FireWire when I go away on trips.
I recently had some connectivity issues and was using my iPhone as a modem. Having encountered a problem, I restarted my computer, having closed down the programs. Having restarted and reopened Mail, I noticed that one of my mailboxes was having trouble opening, but I assumed that this was due to the slow connectivity. Now I have full wireless connectivity restored but I noticed that tens of thousands of sent messages, and hundred of received that were in my inbox, have simply disappeared. I have checked all the folders and the messages that have disappeared and they all relate to one of my email addresses - the one whose box was having trouble opening...
I have two questions - apart from how this couldl have happened:
1) can I restore the missing messages? Are they somewhere on my machine?
2) If not, I copied the whole of Mail to my iBook a few weeks ago. Can I transfer en masse the missing sent and received messages to my iMac, without effacing the more recent messages sent and received on this computer? If I import the Mailboxes, will this not overwrite the more recent messages since that copy to my iBook?
If anyone can help, I'd be most grateful, as these emails are really important for professional reasons.
thanks
Sebastian

With that version of OSX and Mail, there would be no Attachments folder with any POP account's mbox folder. Don't worry about that, as it is a fully redundant archive.
Do you only have POP accounts?
What you are going to have to do is to create some On My Mac mailboxes, and then in the Finder, move batches of the xxxxx.emlx files from the Messages folder into similar Messages folders in enough On My Mac mailboxes so that no one Messages folder exceeds 2 GB. This is because at 2 GB, Mail may not be able to index the messages in a single xxxxx.mbox folder.
Once you have created the On My Mac mailboxes in Mail, you must then Quit Mail. In the Finder, you will find those On My Mac mailboxes within the Mailboxes folder found within the Mail folder. You may have to create the Messages folder in each, if Mail does not do that at the moment of creation.
Once you have distributed the xxxx.emlx files across these new mailboxes, then also in the Finder, at the root level of the Mail folder, remove the Envelop Index files (may be more than one due to indexing failures, btw). then Relaunch Mail and allow it reindex all these messages in all these new mailboxes. See:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mail/4.0/en/14019.html
Pay no attention to its being for Lion, as this has not changed since Leopard (10.5.8). Especially note that IMAP and Exchange account folder, if any, must be removed before doing this.
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