Missing Sent Mail messages

This problem has plagued 2 macs and is extremely annoying OS X 10.8.2 + Mail 6.2 - and also on 10.7.4 and Mail 5.2
Sometimes, when I send email, especially if it has attachments, the send op completes, but there are no traces of the sent email in the sent mailbox on the Mail client or on the iCloud web interface.
The message itself more often than not actually reaches the intended recipient, but I have no record of it ever having been sent.
Sometimes, when there are more than one recipient, it will go to some, but not all recipients
this is now happenng almost daily and is seriously impacting my business.
I tried rebuilding the mailbox. No effect.
Has anyone experienced this? How would I go about tracing the sent op or messages? Does anyone have any suggestions?

I see that this is very annoying and for someone who sends lots of emails for work is very bad!! It happened to me sometimes, fortunately that times I was sending emails to my other email accounts to do various checks.
Mine is not an answer, but if you haven't already done it, I suggest to send a feedback to the Apple Mail team :
Mail -> Provide Mail feedback... -> choose if you want or not send information to apple and click continue and you will be sent to a page where you can describe your problem and send it to the team (probably as bug because is quite important).
You can mark the fact that this is a serious problem and maybe someone will tackle the issue to resolve it.
This is a discussion forum, not sure that experts and developers look here for the bugs!!
Because is a problem that involves theoretically both Apple Mail and eventually the servers (maybe both or maybe just one of the two) that actually handle the sending operation (Gmail,Yahoo,etc.) I would suggest to send the email both from webmail and from Apple Mail for example to one of your accounts to see if they both arrive.

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Well, BD, this may just leave you scratching your head in wonder.
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Hi James, thank you for helping.
I'm using Apple Mail 6.1 with IMAP on an italian provider (Aruba). My problem is only with Apple Mail, my iPhone and my iPad are ok. I'm using iCloud as a secondary email with no issues (at least for what I can see).
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Thomas A Reed wrote:
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Help somebody help please...
my 17 inch powerbook is acting up... last week, i experienced problems with my applications... all the applications wouldn't start, so i reinstalled OS/X and backed up everything (thank god)
worked fine for a while..
then...
today when i open up my mail.. it was cool for a while..
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we're talking about over 3000 messages in my inbox and 2000 over in my sent box. all displaying the same message!!
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Hello Ranjit68,
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities!
It sounds like you are getting some unexpected behaviour after your update to iOS 7.
I want to recommend these 2 steps from the article named:
iOS: Troubleshooting Mail
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3899
Restart your iOS device.
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ibookG4 Mac OS X (10.4.8)
ibookG4 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Here's an article that I found, but not sure if it works or not and not the most elegant sounding. It makes all your messages request a read receipt.
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