Sent Mail Vanished

I'm using 10.4.5. I updated from 10.3.9 a few weeks ago. Everything was working just fine until this morning. I had left my computer on for several hours. I saw that I had a notice telling me that Mail couldn't check my POP account at Gmail. This seems to happen a lot. I have Mail set to auto check for both Gmail and Earthlink POP accounts every 10 minutes. I could not clear the notice. Mail had crashed (frozen.) I force quit Mail. On relaunch everything seemed OK, but a few hours later I noticed that the only "Sent" mail copies remaining in my Sent folder were the ones sent today. There were originally over 500 emails in that folder. The ones I sent today were simply text replies - no large attachments.
I checked User>Library>Mail>EarthlinkPOP account>Sent Messages.mbox. That folder is 80MB. The contents names (and size) are :
tableofcontents (2MB)
Messages (112KB folder)
IncomingTable_ofContents (4K)
mbox (77.7MB)
content_index (148K)
Info.plist (4K)
Incoming_Mail (52K)
It appears that the info is still there. Mail just can't seem to see it.
G4/1.6 Mac OS X (10.4.5)

I have just been going through them and the oldest I have 23 June does not have the emails on it.
My ealier time machine backup became corrupted and kept giving me kernel panics, so I had to delete it. I now run three time machine backups but the earliest of those is 23 June.
I have booted up an old mac, disconnected it from the internet and launched mail on it. This one has emails up to august 2011 on it, so I quickly copied them into a new mailbox, so I "only" have August 2011 to date now missing.
But why have Apple deleted all my emails? If I knew this was a possiblility I would have made several copies!

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The draft version that I wrote last night is no longer in drafts (as expected when you hit send). Very frustrated that I have hit the send button and had my work vanish into thin air.
I have logged into iCloud through safari and there is no copy there and also no copy on my iOS devices. Its like it never existed. I also tried rebuilding the mailboxes and also quit Mail, went into the Library folder and deleted Envelope Index, Envelope Index -wal and Envelope Index-shm and then restarted mail. Nothing.
Fortunately, I cc'ed the email to my husband and he has received it and sent it back to me so at least I have a copy. But now I do not trust my mail app...
Is this a Yosemite bug?

Thanks Glenn! I have no idea how I managed to check that box and sure wouldn't have know to look there. I appreciate your help!

SENT MAIL NOT APPEARING IMAIL

I have had the same gmail account for nearly 7 years. I have always used it with the apple mail program (IMAP). Suddenly in the last couple of days my sent mail has totally vanished (except for nearly 300 messages that seem to be pretty much just from this month and last). The messages exist when I access gmail online (I have nearly 9000 sent messages for this account). I have tried deleting and re-setting up the account and rebuilding it in Mail. This is very frustrating, as I often have to access old messages.
My other email addresses seem to have the same issue as well. (me.com account and another gmail account).
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I downloaded a different mail client (Thunderbird) and the same issue happened when I set up my gmail account. I wonder if it is a Gmail issue? My sent mail appears totally on my Iphone. This is driving me nuts!

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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!
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The contents of my Sent Messages.mbox are as follows:
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- 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?)
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I made a change in Mac Mail by using the Mailbox/Use this mailbox for Sent Mail menu item on the [Gmail] Sent Mail folder and the original
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Been having a couple of problems with a Time Machine drive (WD 1TB MyBook) which have had me diving in and out of Disk Utility and DiskWarrior trying to fix it, but my actual iMac is running fine. However, I just noticed that sometime in the last hour or so, ALL my 'Sent' mail has vanished from the app. Mails sent since the vanish are appearing fine but all my earlier mails are gone. I have Mail set up to use IMAP Gmail but have not had any problems with it before.
This seems to have coincided with a hanged 'Quit' out of Mail earlier today. I'd quit the app and the window had gone but the app wasn't quitting. In the end I Forced Quit but strangely the Force Quit window didn't say the app was unresponsive like it usually does, so perhaps I shouldn't have done this. Either way, I'm pretty sure it was when I relaunched the app that all the Sent mail had gone, but I can't be sure as it was another half hour till I dipped into the folder to check the wording in something I'd sent that morning.
Any ideas?

Owen:
The problem may have been caused by DiskWarrior or the Permission Repair function in DiskUtility. Also there have been a number of stability issues with Mail after the 10.5.6 update.
Apple has just issued a fix for Mail under 10.5.6 - check downloads. If that does not resolve the problems you can import the sent mail using the Import function under Mail/File. You may also have to rebuild the individual mailboxes using Mail/Mailbox/Rebuild.
Hope this helps.
Regards
Dan Reiss

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I can see the 3 POP folders in my Home/Library/Mail/POP'name' and I have a backup copy but Mail won't open them.
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ok, so here is what I would suggest you do:
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I'd be very grateful for any help.

I received a helpful reply on the Virgin Media forum which solved this problem. If anyone else has the same problem, you need to make the following change on the iPad.
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downloaded thunderbird to new computer. three big problems: 1 - address book has been lost 2 - all sent mail is going both to sent mail folder ans also to inbox 3 - all replies and conversations are showing up as separate emails instead of being part of one email thread. i.e., it is a total mess. I have configured the settings correctly I believe. what is going on?

Hmmmm...... perhaps if you took the time to read instructions.
Did you save the add-on XPI file and install it in Thunderbird like the instructions said. Or try and install it in Firefox, get the inevitable failure and complain here that it is not compatible. The web site offers instructions. Perhaps if you read these. http://chrisramsden.vfast.co.uk/3_How_to_install_Add-ons_in_Thunderbird.html That add-on works with the current version.
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"PercentageDatabaseDiskSpaceUsedHighThreshold" value in the EdgeTransport.exe.config file, you should take into consideration the percentage value notified in the Event Log.
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Hi,
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muttrc
# Paths ----------------------------------------------
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localrepository = CGLocal
remoterepository = CGRemote
status_backend = sqlite
[Repository CGLocal]
type = Maildir
localfolders = ~/.mail/mygmail
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[Repository CGRemote]
maxconnections=1
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sslcacertfile = /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
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'[Gmail]/All Mail': 'archive',
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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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Sync has not worked (yet) ~
I'll try archiving from mobileme mail on browser... I can't open the SENT mailbox on TIme Machine on my computer. [It's not the end of the world to lose my Sent Mail, bcz it is still availble via brwoser, but I prefer to be in charge of my computer, not it in charge of me :-D]
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