Not Saving Sent Messages Locally

I have had this same problem for ages! I can't stand it! I need records kept of all messages I send! This used to be fine! A year or so ago, maybe about the time I upgraded to Panther, Mail 1.3.11, no Mail settings changes from me, Sent messages were being still stored in the Sent folder, but not the content - the attachments or text.
I only have a POP account, and the 'erase copies of sent messages' option is set to NEVER. Mail seems to think the 'save copies on server' option is on - not possible for POP. So browsing the Sent folder gives the error
'The message from Mike Bird <[email protected]> concerning “Re: Vacancy - Data Manager” has not been downloaded from the server. You need to take this account online in order to download it.'
The program shouldn't be fishing for non-existent serverside message copies. These should be saved locally, as they used to be! I've tried setting up the account again, but all is correct. Where is the bug? I need my records kept...
Thanks

Looking at other posts in this forum would have revealed that this is a known problem. It’s even documented here:
Overstuffed mailbox is unexpectedly empty
The “solution” suggested in that article, however, wouldn’t have worked in your case because the mailbox was already way too big for Mail to be able to do anything with it.
Although Sent Messages.mbox appears to be a file, it’s actually a special kind of folder (a package) that contains several files. Ctrl-click on Sent Messages.mbox and choose Show Package Contents from the contextual menu to see the files it contains. Of these files, mbox is the most important and is where all your messages are stored.
Since the mailbox is too big for Mail to be able to handle it, you’ll have to break it into smaller pieces. You can do that using the MBOX Breaker Script available at Allan Sampson’s website, or with Emailchemy.
If they aren’t too big, mbox files can be imported back into Mail doing File > Import Mailboxes and choosing Other / Standard mbox or something like that as the data format.

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