Sent mail is stopped

Suddenly I no longer have copies of mail I sent. I've deleted 90% of old mail and sent mail, still no copies of new mail I'm sending remain. Suggestions? Thanks.

Ernie,
I am having the same problem. I was in the process of organizing my sent mail (placing important messages into corresponding client folders to keep track of threads) and found that some of the messages couldn't be moved (I got an error message, but didn't write it down at the time). I tried rebuilding the mailbox to see if that would clear it up and ALL of the messages in the Sent folder vanished!
I had a hard drive failure recently, so the system is a clean install of Tiger from the purchased disc, and then updated to 10.4.5.
The contents of my Sent Messages.mbox are as follows:
- Info.plist - 4KB
- Messages - 12.5 MB (folder with 111 files ending in .emix and ranging in size from 4KB to 1.6MB)
Clearly, the message files are there, but I can't access them in Mail. Can you tell me how to recover them, and maybe advise on how to prevent it happening again? (is this a bug, or some pre-defined limitation on file size or something?)
Thank you for any help you can provide. Let me know if you need more information.
Roger
Mac G5   Mac OS X (10.4.5)  

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