Moving messages to .mac sent mailbox en masse

Hello,
I have a non-.mac account that I send most of my mail from but redirect most incoming email to my .mac account (all accessed with Apple Mail). I have been periodically selecting all the messages in my sent mailbox for the non-.mac account and dragging them to the .mac sent mailbox. the icon indication and the activity viewer made me think these messages were being copied to the .mac server to its sent mailbox. However, the messages are not there when I log in with webmail or use Apple Mail on my other computer. What's worse is that after the messages supposedly copied to the .mac sent mailbox, they disappeared from my non-.mac account's sent mailbox. The messages are nowhere to be found manually or with search on either computer.
N.B. I just turned on the "Automatically sychronize changed mailboxes" option on both computers, but don't think that's the issue since I had already tried the "Sychronize" command on the "Mailbox" menu.
Any help is greatly appreciated!
Michael
P.S. for bonus points, it would be great if I could have a rule that moved sent messages automatically into my .mac sent mailbox from my non-.mac account.

You’re welcome.
Unfortunately, I don’t know what happened here and I’m afraid you may have lost those messages. If the messages have disappeared in Mail, they are not on the server, and you don’t have a backup, your only option is probably to 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. Stop using your computer right now if you want to try that, as anything you do with the computer may cause the deleted files to be overwritten.
You should also verify/repair the startup disk (not just permissions), as described in the following article, in case there is something amiss in the filesystem that has a bearing on this:
The Repair functions of Disk Utility: what's it all about?
When done, report the names of the files and folders present at the first level of the ~/Library/Mail/Mac-username/ account folder.
In order to post the exact file names and avoid typing mistakes, proceed as follows. In the Finder, go to ~/Library/Mail/Mac-username/. With that folder open, if you’re looking at it in View > as List mode, first collapse any expanded folders so that the Finder only shows the files and folders at the first level. Now, do Edit > Select All (⌘A), then Edit > Copy (⌘C), and paste it in your reply to this post -- you may disguise any mailbox names you wish to keep private.
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.

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