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Some lines in the log do indicate something might be going wrong:
Jun 18 15:43:03 lab-226 Mail[7970]: Failed to get message data for <LibraryMessage: 0x1bf9e520, library id: 111528>
Jun 18 15:43:04 lab-226 Mail[7970]: couldn't load body for <LibraryMessage: 0x1bf9e520, library id: 111528>, aborting
Jun 18 15:51:52 lab-226 Mail[7970]: deleting invalid message from outbox
Does anyone experience this problem as well?

I have this exact same problem. I'll type out a whole message, click send and poof! Gone. The message does not appear in my outbox or in my drafts folder even if I have saved a draft. I've had to resort to copying all my emails before sending just in case Mail doesn't send, I can still paste the message and try again. I don't remember always having this issue but I don't know exactly when it cropped up. The other day I received a message that something was corrupt and Mail needed to rebuild my index. Mail closed and then took 30 mins or so to rebuild my thousands of messages. When it opened back up I saw the messages that had "dissapeared" before in my outbox so I assume they actually were sent? I also noticed messages in my inbox that I hadn't seen before, some from weeks ago from people who I had told I never received their email. Very frustrating!
I'm wondering if the problem has anything to do with 10.5.3 or if it had cropped up before. I don't remember.
Does anyone have any ideas what could be wrong? I'm thinking of switching to Thunderbird if this doesn't get fixed soon. I can't be worrying about every email I type, whether or not it's been sent.

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