Odd sent mail behavior

every once in a while i look in my sent folder and i will find serveral emails (somtimes 7-8) that were sent weeks ago, show up as just being sent today all timestamped with the same sent time.
i've asked the person i originally sent the mail to and they don't show recieving it again.
anyone else notice this?

This problem is caused by some index corruption that makes messages to randomly appear in a mailbox different from where they’re supposed to be. If that mailbox happens to be the Outbox, Mail thinks they’re waiting to be sent and dutifully proceeds to try to send them, but it could also be that the index corruption is causing the messages to re-appear directly in Sent without them having really been sent again.
Verify/repair the startup disk (not just permissions), as described here:
The Repair functions of Disk Utility: what's it all about?
After having fixed all filesystem issues, if any, and making sure that there’s enough space available on the startup disk (a few GB, plus the space needed to make a backup copy of the Mail folder), try this:
1. Quit Mail if it’s running.
2. In the Finder, go to ~/Library/Mail/. Make a backup copy of this folder, just in case something goes wrong, e.g. by dragging it to the Desktop while holding the Option (Alt) key down. This is where all your mail is stored.
3. Locate Envelope Index and move it to the Trash. If you see an Envelope Index-journal file there, delete it as well.
4. Open Mail. It will tell you that your mail needs to be “imported”. Click Continue and Mail will proceed to re-create Envelope Index -- Mail says it’s “importing”, but it just re-creates the index if the mailboxes are already in Mail 2.x format.
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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I've also noticed that some of the emails in the Junk folder have not actually been flagged as Junk Mail, they were not colored brown by the Junk Mail rule and there is no button available to tell Mail it's not Junk. How do I stop Mail from flagging something as Junk when it doesn't seem to tag it as Junk but it still ends up in the Junk folder?
I see emails tagged as Junk in the Junk folder that are legit, so I click the "Not Junk" button and move them back to the proper mail folder. But the next time I get mail from the same source, it gets flagged and tagged as Junk again. I thought the Mail app learns from the training we give it. How do I resolve this situation?
I've already set the Junk filtering to not filter emails from recipients who are in my Address Book.

Either you’ve messed with the Preferences > Junk Mail > Advanced settings, or those settings have become corrupt, or you have one or more rules that have a bearing on this.
Assuming it isn’t the latter, try this:
1. Go to Preferences > Junk Mail, disable junk mail filtering, then enable it again. This resets the rule that governs what the junk filter does.
2. Choose either Training or Automatic mode (it doesn’t matter) and leave the other options checked. Click Advanced to see how the junk filter rule is defined now if you want, but don’t touch anything there.
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I have 4 messages in my SENT mail folder on my iPhone 3GS (v3.1.2) that I simply can't get rid of. When I try and delete them (either one at a time or as a group), I get the message: "Unable to Move Message(s): The message could not be moved to the mailbox Trash." I've tried turning the mail account on and off, hard resetting the iPhone etc. with no success.
I've seen a number of forum threads about this problem but with no solutions. Just checking that by some stroke of good luck, somebody has figured out how to resolve this issue.
Other messages (those before and since the 4 mentioned here) have been no problem. I can delete them without a problem.
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Happy Holidays and thank you!
Peter

Hi Peter,
since its now January 2010, I sure hope you have resolved this issue! I had the same problem after I had to restore my iphone G3. Anyway, played around a bit and was able to fix by changing the "deleted mailbox" behavior...to use the trash on the server vs on "my iphone"
here it is:
settings/mail,contacts/accounts (choose yours)/advanced/deleted mailbox/
then click the trash bin on the server.
this should also work for your sent mail behavior.
hope this helps!

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Hi, I was wondering if anyone might be able to offer some advice...
I've noticed just this past day or so that some of my draft and sent mail messages have inexplicably got a small image of a basketball appearing on the far right of the messages directly opposite where an addressee's name and the date of the message would appear. A friend has confirmed that he actually received a message with this basketball logo on it...!
The only other time I have seen this logo was last night when I had launched my iChat program for the first time using my aol IM account details, and I'd noticed the basketball graphic had been assigned next to my name when the program was open... But after deciding the iChat program wasn't offering anything I preferred particularly over my existing aol IM account I deleted my account details in iChat and quit the program... Could this be related?
Would be most grateful for any assistance- obviously with many business/work emails to send a basketball logo in the far right header of outgoing mail is not something I am happy with...!
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Hello CMK.
Since you have the option to store sent messages on the server, this must be a .Mac or IMAP type account.
If so, quit the Mail.app and using the Finder go to Home > Library > Mail > Mailboxes.
Locate the Sent Messages.mbox for this account - it will be Sent Messages (the IMAP account's name).mbox.
All locally stored mailboxes for a .Mac or IMAP type account are located in the Mailboxes folder.
Move the account's Sent Messages.mbox to the Desktop.
When re-launching Mail, a new Sent Messages.mbox will be created automatically by Mail for the account within the Mailboxes folder when sending the next message with the account.
This will prevent losing any new sent messages with the account while working on the old Sent Messages.mbox to recover the existing messages.
Control-click on the old Sent Messages.mbox moved to the Desktop and at the menu window that appears, select Show Package Contents.
Post back here listing the package content file names and size of each. This information is required to determine the next step to take.

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Hi,
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muttrc
# Paths ----------------------------------------------
set folder = ~/.mail # mailbox location
set alias_file = ~/.mutt/alias # where to store aliases
set header_cache = ~/.mutt/cache/headers # where to store headers
set message_cachedir = ~/.mutt/cache/bodies # where to store bodies
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# Status Bar -----------------------------------------
set status_chars = " *%A"
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# Header Options -------------------------------------
ignore * # ignore all headers
unignore from: to: cc: date: subject: # show only these
unhdr_order * # some distros order things by default
hdr_order from: to: cc: date: subject: # and in this order
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# Other special folders.
set mbox = "+mygmail/archive"
set postponed = "+mygmail/drafts"
# Index View Options ---------------------------------
set date_format = "%m/%d"
set index_format = "[%Z] %D %-20.20F %s"
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bind index G last-entry
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set pager_context = 3 # number of context lines to show
set pager_stop # don't go to next message automatically
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alternative_order text/plain text/enriched text/html
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status_backend = sqlite
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'sent': '[Gmail]/Sent Mail',
'flagged': '[Gmail]/Starred',
'trash': '[Gmail]/Trash',
'archive': '[Gmail]/All Mail',
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sslcacertfile = /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
nametrans = lambda folder: {'[Gmail]/Drafts': 'drafts',
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'[Gmail]/All Mail': 'archive',
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'[Gmail]/Spam',
I use msmtp to send the emails (and they do send) but as far as I know that program should have nothing to do with my folder labeling.
What happens exactly: When in mutt, I press 'm' and compose an email and send with 'y'. Oddly enough, the email appears in my gmail inbox (the webmail) even before I sync mutt with offlineimap (I don't automatically sync). Once I sync, I see the email in both my sent mail and inbox.
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