Recover Sent Messages after Rebuild erased them

I really need some help with the following issue:
Last week I opened Mail and searched for a messages. I found it, but when I clicked it, it appeared blank. I started Rebuild and suddenly all blank messages were gone! I moved Mail out of my /library and it downloaded all again, BUT the sent messages are lost. Now I wonder if there is a way to find them somewhere on my computer (they are not stored on the servers, as I wrote them in Mail and sent them from my MBP.
Strangely not all of my 4 accounts got affected the same way. One (work) lost all! sent messages, one Yahoo lost part of it, the other nothing and Hotmail didn´t get affected at all. As I used them in the very same order most lately there might be a connection. Also the received messages lost are mostly from: University account (all before november 9th), one Yahoo (all before june 2009) and the others are intact. The received ones I could recover from the servers.
But I really would love to find the sent ones again!
All started after I upgraded Java and it didn´t get fixed by 10.6.5. or repairing permissions.
Thanks!

Sounds like you had some kind of corruption in your mailboxes. Unfortunately, if you don't have backups, there's really no good way to recover those messages. I think that using data recovery software to recover messages would be very difficult, not to mention the issue that you may have written over some of that data already, by continuing to use the computer. If you want to try, you could use [Data Rescue|http://www.prosofteng.com>, [File Salvage|http://subrosasoft.com/OSXSoftware/index.php?mainpage=product_info&productsid=1] or some other recovery tool.
In the end, all this could have been avoided by simply having backups. In the future, it's simply a matter of time before you lose more data, so you should start backing up as soon as possible. See my [Mac Backup Guide|http://www.reedcorner.net/thomas/guides/backups> for assistance with that.

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