Messages in "Sent" folder have disappeared

About 1,500 disappeared about a month ago and about 1/2 hour ago 400 disappeared.
How do I retrieve them?
Thank you.

You could try the advice in the page I linked, under "Corrupted Folders". If Thunderbird is in its safe mode, are the messages still missing? Some extensions can cause problems.
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Compacting_folders#Compacting_doesn.27t_seem_to_work
How often do you compact your folders? You should be doing that frequently. Try the advice above first.

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I have set up 4 email accounts. Two are gmail and they show only old messages in sent folder - even when messages have been sent from this ipad.

I tried deleting and re-entering the accounts, but problem with sent folder still occurs

I found this in another discussion in the box on the right >>>>> More like this.
Substitute whatever your email account's name is where it states Comcast and see if this helps. The settings would be the same on an IPad as on an iPhone.
Go into Settings>Mail, Contacts, Calendars>and select the Comcast account. From there look at the Outgoing Mail Server. It shoudl list the Comcast SMTP server. Touch that button and it will take you to another settings page for SMTP. It will show you the Primary SMTP server along with other SMTP servers. If the gmail server is listed there, then you can touch on it and turn it off. That should take care of it. The iPhone will try and use the SMTP server you have listed for a particular mail account, however, if that server is unavailable, it will take the next one on the SMTP list until it gets to one it can use.

Messages In Inbox and sent mailbox have disappeared

I have been using my mac e-mail for a considerable time with no problems however in the last month, I have lost virtually all of my messages in both my inbox and sent mailbox> I have checked my preferences and the deletion of e-mails is set to 'never'. Does anyone know what might be causing this and how to stop it from happening. Thanks.

You’re welcome.
If the *.emlx files associated with those messages are gone from the filesystem, rebuilding mailboxes or re-creating the index cannot make them reappear.
There is no way to know what may have happened if you don’t know when it happened and what did you do that could have a bearing on it. What you mention about moving data between computers could certainly have a bearing on it when it happened the first time, but there is no way to know what the problem exactly was in that case either with the information you’ve provided...
If the messages are nowhere to be found and you don’t have a backup, you may try to salvage as many deleted *.emlx files as possible with a data recovery tool such as Data Rescue II, TechTool Pro, or FileSalvage. Of these, the only one I know for sure that can currently recover deleted *.emlx files is FileSalvage. Beware, however, that anything you’ve done with the computer since the messages were deleted may have caused them to be overwritten, which makes me believe your chances of recovering them now are pretty low...

Apple Mail and the "sent messages" verus "sent" folder

I have a Mac Pro and a MacBook Pro, both running Snow Leopard with all the latest patches.
In mail, in what appears to be the same mail configuration and the same account, I have sent messages being stored in a "sent messages" folder on the IMAP server and the other is storing it a "sent" folder.
I can't seem to find a way to get them both to use the same folder and I don't see that in the "Mailbox behavior" tab.
Any ideas how to get them to use the same folder?

Where is the Sent Messages folder listed? If it is not under MAILBOXES but in an IMAP folder, select it and go to Mailbox menu, Use this mailbox for>Sent.
It should disappear and sent messages then appear in the Sent folder.

Duplicate Messages in Sent Folder--Apple mail and gmail

I recently started using apple mail for my two gmail accounts.
I have properly configured all folders (highlight "trash" from gmail and click use this mailbox for..)
since i have two gmail accounts, i did this for both of them.
i did a couple of test emails from my main gmail account. now, in my sent folder it's showing duplicates for what i've sent, one from my main gmail account, one from my second gmail account.
I've tried to uncheck the box where it saves messages on server in preferences, and that seemed to work. however, i checked on my iphone and my sent message showed up..not in my main gmail account sent mail, but in my secondary gmail account sent mail.
can this be fixed?

check out the settings here: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=78892#
specifically:
From the Mail menu, click Preferences > Accounts > Mailbox Behaviors
Drafts:
Store draft messages on the server > do NOT check
Sent:
Store sent messages on the server > do NOT check
Junk:
Store junk messages on the server > checked
Delete junk messages when > Never
Trash:
Move deleted messages to the Trash mailbox > do NOT check
Store deleted messages on the server > do NOT check

Can't read messages in sent folder

We can't read any messages in the sent folder. The window only shows the following message:
+The message from Nicki Frech <[email protected]> concerning “test” has not been downloaded from the server. You need to take this account online in order to download it.+
We cannot see what settings to change so that the sent messages are available on the computer. Many thanks for any help!

Have a look in Mail > Preferences > Accounts, Special Mailboxes tab at Sent, and see what it reports for, +Erase copies of sent messages when:+
If it is a short period like one day, or on quitting Mail, then they may be erased accordingly.
You could set it to never to keep them permanently.
regards roam
Message was edited by: roam

Number of messages in Sent folder

Since I was 'migrated' a month ago I've been keeping a daily eye on the number of messages in my Sent folder. Strangely the total is invariably 166! This is most odd; though my email traffic is generally modest, I send out an average 10-15 messages daily.
I retain a large archive of old messages, chiefly in comnnection with my family history research, and the number of my messages listed on WLM is way in excess of 166, so what is happening to the messages 'falling off the end' on BTMail? Or is this 'just another glitch', that proves that BTMail can't count?

Which phone do you have ? ...or do you have problems with OVI sync ?
See if you have these options..
Messaging-->Options-->Settings-->Other-->No. of saved messages.. set as 999(max.)
Check if this makes any difference..
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------If you find this helpful, pl. hit the White Star in Green Box...

Why are messages in Sent Folder marked as Junk?

I have a new Intel iMac with Safari 2.0.3. A few days ago I noticed that all the messages in the Sent Folder are marked as Junk with the brown color band at the top and the message saying "You have marked this messages as Junk." I have no rules in place to cause this and my incoming mail is filtered using the Advanced feature. I have no idea why mail I have composed and sent would be marked at all, much less as junk. Any help is solving this would be appreciated. Also, I noticed a lot of postings about mail in Sent Folders being lost. I wonder if that mail was marked as Junk first, like mine, and then moved into the Trash based on a rule to throw junk mail away. I have no rules to move junk mail to the trash.

I'm also having the same issue. I think there's a correlation between whether or not a message is auto-saved as a Draft and whether or not it shows up as UNREAD in your Sent folder. For instance, if I write a quick message (~10 seconds) and send, then is has not had time to be auto-saved as a Draft and does not show up as UNREAD in the Sent folder. However, if I leave a new message open long enough (~2 minutes or more) then it has auto-saved in the Drafts folder, where it has received a UNREAD marking. Then, when I send the item, it is moved to the Sent folder, but retains the UNREAD marking.
Does anyone see this correlation on their system?

All messages in sent folder are gone! :(

Hi there,
All messages in the "Sent" folder in the Mail application are gone!
I had around 2,000 messages, some with large attachments.
Did "Mail" just deleted them?!
Could I somehow recover the lost messages?
Please help if you know anything about this unfortunate incident...
Thanks!
1.6 GHz powerPC G5 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

You have adequate free hard drive space - with a 74.5 GB HD capacity, you should keep no less than 7.5 - 8 GB free.
What is the overall size of the Mail folder?
The Mail.app alone requires the same amount of free hard drive space as the overall size of the Mail folder for general housekeeping purposes during use. If you don't have adequate free hard drive space, application preference files can become corrupt or be lost and data loss can also occur.
Each email client has limits and with Jaguar/Panther Mail, you shouldn't allow a mailbox to exceed 1GB in size and with Tiger Mail, 2GB.
Better to utilize user created "On My Mac" mailboxes to sort received and sent messages by category not deleted that you need to save once a month or so. I've been using the Mail.app exclusively since Jaguar was introduced, thru Panther and now Tiger and I've never experienced the same. Before upgrading to Tiger, I didn't allow a mailbox to exceed 500 MB or so and I use the Rebuild Mailbox function on the most active mailboxes on a regular basis - once a month or every couple of weeks depending on activity.
I also use SuperDuper to maintain a bootable clone of my hard drive saved to an external Firewire drive.
Also, you wrote "When a mailbox has an "overstuffed" mailbox issue
which means the mailbox is corrupt, a good number of messages are
incorrectly stored in another and/or other package files. "
-where should I start looking ?
There is no other place to look. The other package content files for this mailbox have no significant size.

Mail won't automatically apply rules to messages in "sent" folder

The title says it all. Is this a bug? Mail lets you set rules for items in the "sent" folder, but apple won't automatically apply the rules like it will for all other mail. You must highlight your "sent" messages and click "apply rules." This is quite annoying. Am I missing something.
Thanks,
Jake

Once you send an e-mail it gets time stamped, from what I know this timestamp can't be modified. I too have received e-mails with the wrong timestamp. In some mail clients such as Yahoo Mail and Gmail what will happen is that you will get a new message notification but the email won't be at the top of the inbox but rather somewhere down the list. This happens as e-mails are sorted by their timestamps when they arrive to your inbox.
Hope this helps!

Messages in sent folder cannot be accessed

Hello
on one of our machines messages in the sent folder cannot be accessed, we get a message which says the message is unavailable since it has not been downloaded from the server - or something like that!
It's just started happening and is very annoying. It now seems to be affecting all the sent emails from that account. The account is POP so the sent messages should be sotred on the machine, not on the server in any case, no?
Can anyone shed some light??
Thanks

Once you send an e-mail it gets time stamped, from what I know this timestamp can't be modified. I too have received e-mails with the wrong timestamp. In some mail clients such as Yahoo Mail and Gmail what will happen is that you will get a new message notification but the email won't be at the top of the inbox but rather somewhere down the list. This happens as e-mails are sorted by their timestamps when they arrive to your inbox.
Hope this helps!

Duplicate messages in sent folder in hotmail

I am suing hotmail account on Mac/ apple Email. All messages sent from hotmail account are shown in duplicate in Sent folder.
Its frustrating to delete these messages as I have a habit of keeping Sent folder empty after transferring the required messages to my folders.

You could try the advice in the page I linked, under "Corrupted Folders". If Thunderbird is in its safe mode, are the messages still missing? Some extensions can cause problems.
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Compacting_folders#Compacting_doesn.27t_seem_to_work
How often do you compact your folders? You should be doing that frequently. Try the advice above first.

Old emails in IMAP inbox folder have disappeared

Hi there,
I came to look for an email pre September 23rd this year in my inbox and all of them have disappeared. I don't seem to be able to find any Archive folders. In the account settings, I have 'Don't delete any messages' selected.
Despite this, sent, draft and even deleted emails dating back to 2008 are still there which adds insult to injury!
Because it's IMAP, they have all disappeared on my email server's webmail service too, so it seems they've literally gone for good.
Does anybody have any idea at all where on earth I might be able to find them? More than a little pissed off with Thunderbird right now (and my paid-for email provider, who I've just rung, spoke to and have been put on hold for 20 minutes with!)

Then it is probably a server-side issue rather than an issue with your Mac.
Items left in the Inbox are still resident on the mail provider's servers. While there, they are subject to the email provider's policies as to how long to keep them. Some providers allow you to adjust that criterium via preferences accessed by going to your mail account through your browser.
One solution for that is to get the emails actually onto your Mac. To do that, create new mailboxes via the "New Mailbox..." item in the Mailbox menu. Be sure to select "On My Mac" as the location for them. Then move the mail messages from the inbox into those new mailboxes.
To move messages from one mailbox to another, select one or more messages in the list, then click and hold on it/them and drag the group into the new mailbox.
Adding several new mailboxes in the "On My Mac" area will also allow you to sort your collection of messages into various groups according to your logic; this makes finding a particular message much easier.

Exchange – Emails in sent folder have no sender information in header

Hey Everybody,
when I send emails with my exchange account in mail.app the copy of the email that is stored in the sent folder is missing the sender information in its header. The "from" column is empty, however, it should say my name there.
Pretty annoying because I use smart folders to organize my mails that depend on the sender information in the header. The only workaround I found so far is using imap in mail.app instead of exchange – but that's not a really satisfying solution.
I only have this problem when using mail.app with exchange. When I use the outlook.com web interface to send emails they are shown correctly in the sent folder in mail.app. Same goes for sending mails via exchange from my iPhone. My MobileMe account also works perfectly in mail.app. For the receiver there is no problem either - my name is correclty displayed as the sender.
Is anybody else having that problem or knows or solution?

Open Apple Contacts and verify your contact as "My Card". Microsoft calls this card "This is me". It's not stored on Exchange but in the local Outlook Address Book. I don't use Exchange so not sure if Apple will let you select your contact on Exchange contacts. You might need to select the local or iCloud contact.
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11582
Once you set "My Card", check to see if the issue is fixed.
If you still have issues.....
Let's eliminate issues in your User's folder by testing in a new User.
CREATE A NEW USER
Go to System Preferences --> Create a New User in Accounts. Switch to the New User by logging out/in or use Fast User Switching.
Add your Exchange account to Mail.
Do you still see the issue?
If yes, then the problem is with your base files.
If no, then the problem is in your User's folder.
Option to repair Mail in your User's folder:
Go to your User's Library folder. (if you don't know how to find, see this link.)
Scroll to Mail folder.
Select the V2 > MailData folder.
Delete any files in MailData with envelope in the name. (should be 3)
You can test Mail after deleting envelope files. When you open Mail it will re-index your files.
If you still have problems....
Go to Containers in the User's Library folder.
Delete the com.apple.mail folder.
Go to Preferences in the User's Library folder.
If you find any com.apple.mail.plist files, delete these.
Log out under the Apple in the Menu bar
Log in
Open Mail.

Can't find Sent Messages in Sent folder

Can't find sent messages in Sent Folder

Yes, this same problem occurs to me - but only after migrating to Mountain Lion (or at least I did not notice it before)
Yes, I am operating several different eMail addresses - does this have anything to do with this problem ?!
Please help, if you can, this is enormously irritating.
Thanks & regards

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