Strange sent box behavior

Strange behavior I hope someone can help diagnose: After sending an email with an attachment, it will appear as though no attachment is present (looking down the attachment column in the sent box). After opening up the email, the attachment icon appears as it should. Is there any way to remedy this behavior without opening every single sent email by hand?

First try using Rebuild on the Sent mailbox -- if more than one account, then you must reveal the separate Sent mailboxes for each account, before Rebuild will be functional. Click on Mailbox in the menubar, and choose Rebuild while the Sent mailbox is open.
Ernie

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When i make a new mail, it always get saved in the drafts folder, also when i sent it within a couple of minutes.
Not saving mails as draft.
All mails we sent are coming in the sent mailbox as Unread .. ?
Recieving and sending mails is working normal.
Any idea to how to solv this. I didn't updated to 10.6.3 yet, will do that next week.

Yes, as I thought.
I have trashed the mail account (having firts deleted the emial at the email provider) and re- entered it.
Problem solved.

Some emails I send are arriving with attachments but with no text in the body of the message. In the sent box my emails look OK. So it took me a while to know this was happening.

I have an Apple Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10.3 with a 2.7 GHZ Intel Core 15 Processor. 8GB Memory.
Just discovered that some emails I have sent with attachments have arrived with the attachments OK but my message has disappeared from the email. In the Sent box, the email looks OK with message intact. Has anyone else experienced this? No idea what to do.

This is the Mac Pro desktop forum.
In the received message does the subject appear correctly?
Is just the body message field blank?
What app is the recipient using?
Can they try another pp?
Is there anything strange in the body? Like special characters?

Every email I have sent in the past two years just reappeared in my sent box and I can't delete them. Why?

Every email I have ever sent just showed up in my sent box. I can't delete them. What's up?

Hi Linda,
This is Strange.
Not certain, but this can fix myriad Mail problems...
Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), it will try to repair your Disk Directory while the spinning radian is happening, so let it go, run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, then move this folder & file to the Desktop.
Move this Folder to the Desktop...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Caches/Mail/
Move this file to the Desktop...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/Envelope Index
Reboot.
If that doesn't do it and you can afford to redo all your Rules, try these & reboot...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/MessageRules.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/MessageRules.plist.backup
Note, in 10.5 & up /Users/YourUserName/Library/Caches/Mail/ may or may not exist.

Sent boxes in Gmail and in Mail are not the same

Hi, I am using Gmail and Mail in OS X lion. When I send a message through Gmail (on Firefox), the message is not in the sent box in Mail. The sent box in Mail keeps messages sent through only Mail. Is there any way to "synchronize" sent boxes in Gmail and Mail? Thanks,

If you have the Gmail account set up in Mail correctly, you will have the Gmail IMAP folder at the bottom of the Mail sidebar. The Inbox will automatically synced with the Inbox folder, so it won't show up in the IMAP mailboxes.
Highlight the sent mailbox under the IMAP folder, go to the main menu in Mail, click on Mailbox, scroll down to the "Use This Mailbox For", and select Sent. Do the same for others you want to see such as Trash.
Also, select to store messages on the server in Mail preferences under Mailbox behaviors and set you delete time to your preferences.

How do I include icloud sent messages in my sent box on Mail

Hello
I file my mail on my Mac.
I am running 10.8.5, Mail 6.6.
I have a Sent box that looks like an arrow that contains my .Mac mail.
Inside mailboxes I have created there is a mailbox Sent Messages (iCloud) that I didn't create. This mailbox also appears on my iCloud Mail.
How do I move the mailbox into my general Sent mailbox so I can file my mail regardless of how I sent it?
Strangely I have more messages in the iCloud folder than in the Mail folder. This seems to be because they were inside the Sent folder on Mail until a certain date and then stopped being there.
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I hope Apple is listening -- the limits on system 6 prevented the ridiculous 6500 emails I now have on my iPhone. I'm not a programmer, but the ability to delete emails does not sound advanced to me in any way. I'm interested to know if it is for some bizzare reason.
Archiving seems straightforward enough...does Apple actually just want us to be forced to purchase more disk space? I like keeping all my messages on my server, but deleting them on my iPhone. It seems I am not alone.
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Problems with sent box, reindexing mail

I am in the middle of a mail crisis and in need of help. I apologize for the longwinded explanation, but I thought I would be thorough in the hopes that it will help me get help.
It started with my sent box (which is very large) "dragging" when I ran searches in it (which I often have to do with my work).
Firstly, I tried to rebuild the sent box. Mail froze halfway through the process and I had to force quit it. When I started mail again, I noticed that the content of the messages were not correlating to the right message headers (recipient or subject line). I tried rebuilding the sent box again. This time, it went a little farther before freezing (it froze when the activity window indicated something was being done with the attachments - I can't remember exactly what). After force quitting again, I noticed that the messages in the sent box were correlating properly but it was stil very slow in searches, the box took a real long time to open, and sometimes it would freeze mail.
I then tried to reindex mail as per instructions found on the apple site: quit mail, go to the mail data folder, remove the envelope foldes, and re-start mail, which would cause mail to have to import the messages again. I made sure I did a back to up prior to trying this. When doing so, my time capsule accused that it didn't have enough space, and that is when I first noticed that my HD was bown up to near its capacity; strange, I thought, but proceeded to erase some media to make room so I could finish the back up. The importing/reindexing started and all was moving along fine until it got to the (now evil) sent box... it froze. I tried a couple of times, and it kept freezing.
I tried to go back to where I was before reindexing by erasing the new envelope folders that had been created, and replacing them with the ones that were there before and I had removed. It seemingly worked as Mail started again. However, now had more issues. First, my inbox was empty... I had to restore it from time machine back up. Then, I noticed that the content of the messages in all of my mailboxes would not load. I could see the messages and their previews, but the content would not load when I clicked on the messages. All of that on top of the sent box conitunuing to misbehave.
By this time, I started getting messages from the OS about my startup disk being almost full (real strange since I had just freed up close to 80 GB!). I knew something was wrong with that, but went ahead and got rid of another 30GB so I could proceed with trying to fix mail and would come back to this problem later.
I decided to try the reindexing again. Tried the terminal method, but nothing seemed to happen. Tried the replacing of the envelope folders again, and the same happened: froze and my HD went to capacity again. I then realized that the reindexing and the filling of the HD had to be directly connected. After some research, I downloaded an app (whatsize) to find heavy or duplicate files, and, sure enough, there were hundreds of GB in duplicate mail data (sent box) in my library. The Whatsize app is currently working to sort out all of the duplicate files (a 20 hour process). This is my first time using this app, but I am thinking that, upon conclusion, I should be able to delete the duplicates...
That brings to where I am at now. Where to go from here? After (if) deleting the duplicates, what is the best way to restablish Mail?
Any help will be much appreciated as I cannot work without Mail.

In the Finder, go to ~/Library/Mail/. With that folder open, do Edit > Select All (⌘A), then Edit > Copy (⌘C), and paste it in your reply to this post, to let me see the names of the files and folders present at the root level of the Mail folder.
Before actually posting that information, you may edit it so that the file/folder names do not reveal any details you wish to keep private, e.g. you may replace any real username with "username" to hide your real email address if you wish; similarly, you may disguise any domain names you don't want to be revealed. Try to be consistent in how you disguise those details, though, as we may need to refer to them in subsequent posts.
Now, go to ~/Library/Mail/Mailboxes/. With that folder open, repeat the process to let me see the names of the files and folders it contains. Again, you may disguise any mailbox names you wish to keep private. Be careful to not alter any suffixes, though.
Finally, for the two accounts involved in the problem, locate the account folders within ~/Library/Mail/ -- their name begins with the account type (POP, IMAP, Mac), followed by the account username and the incoming mail server. For each account folder, repeat the process to let me see the names of the files and folders it contains.
Note: For those not familiarized with the ~/ notation, it refers to the user's home folder. You can easily locate any of the folders referred to in this post by copying the file path here, doing Go > Go to Folder in the Finder, and pasting the file path there.

Can not read new emails and the composed emails will not go to the Sent box!

After attaching an email three nights ago to an outgoing message, Thunderbird could not save the file to the "Sent" box. Since then I can not receive any new messages and when when attempting to send an outgoing message, I get an error message that says "There was an error saving the message to Sent. Retry?"

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I have an iMac running Yosemite 10.10.1 & Outlook 2011 for Mac. For a while, sent emails went to a sent folder on the iMac so I have a collection of sent emails there. How can I move them to a sent box on my server so I can see them on other devices?

I have an iMac 3.2 GHz Intel Core i5 with 16 GB memory and 1.12 TB storage running Yosemite 10.10.1 & Outlook 2011 for Mac. For a while, sent emails went to a sent folder on the iMac so I have a collection of sent emails there. I have attempted to move those sent emails from the iMac to my email server (IMAP), but without success. Is there a way to move them to a sent box on my server so I can see them on other devices? Many thanks for any help you can provide.

Go to: Apple > System Preferences > Universal Access and in the Seeing tab make sure that the Display Enhance contrast: is set to Normal.
Alternatly, try holding the ⌃⌥⌘ (control command alt) keys and then pressing the , (comma) key a few times.

When I send a photo from iphoto through e mail I cannot find a record in the sent box. Where is the record of the sent photo?

Where is the record of an e mail I send using i photo share? It isn't in the 'sent' box of my e mail account

What I am missing is the sharing history in iPhoto.
It's hidden and buried in the Info drawer for the photo.
And there's no way to search for those photos that have been emailed. If you want a sent copy BCC yourself on every email you send out.
OT

HT4863 I sent an email from my iPhone 3GS (via iCloud account) with around 16GB of attachment. It slowed down the phone for a few seconds, then appeared to be sent. However, the message is now not in the sent box, and I can't see an outbox at all. Any ide

I sent an email from my iPhone 3GS (via iCloud account) with around 16GB of attachment. It slowed down the phone for a few seconds, then appeared to be sent. However, the message is now not in the sent box, and I can't see an outbox at all. Any ideas?

That changes things a little bit , login to icloud.com and see if you can find it in your sent folder.
If it is there you did send, just need to wait until you phone syncs "sent folder" perhaps on wifi.
If it is not, then I would say it is lost and you may have to send again. They have 20 megs limit, so make sure that message plus attachment is under that limit.

Sent e-mail messages do not appear in the sent box

sent e-mail messages do not appear in the sent box

Glad it's working for you but it's still not for me. I was sending emails fine today and they went to sent box then all of a sudden they aren't there. Does anyone know what is the problem and a simple solution?

How do i save all my mail in my inbox and sent box?

hello
i am going to upgrade my OSX to Snow Leopard
how do i save all my mail in my inbox and sent box then restore it when my new OSX is installed?
thanks in advance
tk

It's always good to have a backup, but Snow Leopard should leave all your data intact, just install new OS components & updated Apple Apps.
If you don't have room to back everything up...
On Mail...
First Quit Mail, then I'd backup these two Mail folders, by right clicking on them in the Finder, then choose Archive/Compress.
Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail
Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail Downloads
(Could be a different folder here if you chose such in Mail Prefs)
Right click on that Mail folder, choose archive, you'll get everything in the folder, and the folder itself in a file called Mail.zip, move it to a safe place, same for the Mail Downloads folder... only the plist is separate.
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist
For Address Book, quit AB...
Files...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.AddressBook.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.AddressBook.abd.plist
Folders...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Caches/com.apple.AddressBook/
If you do have room to back everything up...
Get carbon copy cloner to make an exact copy of your old HD to the New one...
http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html
Or SuperDuper...
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/

I have the number 396 next to my sent box but no messages in the box

In mail I find the number 396 next to my sent box but when I clic on the sent box there is no message inside to delete.
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Interesting ... glad you were able to check via webmail.
So one way to get rid of the sent messages number would be to restore your iPad. That would, however, clear out the contents of all your email accounts.
If that would be OK for you, restore by plugging your iPad into the current version of iTunes on your computer (11.1.5). Let it sync. Then choose "Restore" from the iPad's summary page in iTunes. You would then elect to restore from the iPad's backup. Again, this would cause all email messages on your iPad to be lost.

I have 3 mail accounts on ipad 4 - All Sent box indicates 57 unread messages. There are no messages in box. Help

I have three email accounts on my ipad 4. The ALL SENT box indicates that I have 57 unread messages. When I go to box, the box is empty, there are Bo messages.

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