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Yesterday evening when closing MacBook, it restarted OSX by itself.
At starting up Mail this morning it asked to use the new settings or to go back to previous settings. Unfortunately we chose the new settings...
Today we find that Mail has deleted the gmail account, added subfolders for the Inbox (.Mac account als a subfolder) and Sent box has been 'erased' completely. We 'lost' over 2000 messages sent.
Using mailsearch I can find the sent messages. They actually appear to be in the sent box as selecting them turns out to select the sent box. So the messages are still there. But not visible in the Sent box.
Selecting the messages from yesterday will not give the messages. In stead a messages appears:
something like "Message has not been downloaded from server. You need to set the account to 'On line' to be able to download."
I added the gmail account, no show
Changed status, no show
Removed .Mac account, no show
Removed com.apple.mail.plist, restarted, no show
Downloading new mail works properly.
What I don't understand is that sent messages are visible as titles, but content is 'on server'. Since when does the content of a sent message in Mail moves to a server?
Is there a solution to this problem?
As I have convinced my girlfriend to switch from Windows to Mac and this problem concerns mail from my girlfriend I would be really pleased to hear from you.
Kind regards

OK, figured it out.
Before doing anything else... (like removing account, or shuffling messagefiles and the like) you might want to try this..
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303803
This article describes how to reindex Mail by removing Envelopindex file from your home/library/mail/ folder.
It worked great for me.
Eventhough gmail is pop account, removing indexfile "Envelopeindex" (moved to desktop) was good enough. A dialoguebox will tell you that new Tiger functions need this reindexing.
I hope this works for you as well.
Regards

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