Why do email messages I send no longer appear in my sent folder?

Normally all email messages I send appear listed in my Sent folder. Today none of my emails appeared in my sent folder although I'm pretty sure they were in fact sent.

iPhone4, latest iOS, mac, gmail and company outlook accounts, they were all working fine and then I must have changed something because I can see the email in each account on the phone but only the subject line, no message

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I sent emails today but they don't appear in the "Sent" folder.

Where did they go?

That would explain why they are or are not saved *on the server*, but not why they are not saved locally...
The OP does not see them in his sent mail, local.
Or would the server parameter also control local copies...?
Grant

Emails sent through Mail 7.0 on Mac won't appear in the Sent folder in the Yahoo web browser or the Mail app for iPad.

It seems that emails I send via Mail on my mac are stored only in Mail's Sent folder. These emails don't appear in the sent folder of Yahoo web browser, iPad Mail app, or the Y! Mail android app..
I've tested to see whether my emails are actually sending properly, and they are. I just want to know why the Sent messages on my mac aren't appearing anywhere else. I've read similar issues to this but haven't yet found a reason or solution.
Thanks in advance

[edit] I dragged the email I sent through the MBP Mail app (under MAILBOXES > Sent > Yahoo!) to the highlighted Sent folder (YAHOO! > Sent), and now it shows up on all Yahoo Sent folders (iPad app, web browser, phone app). Not entirely solved the issue but will use web browser to sent future emails to keep everything in sync.

Emails forwarded by using a rule don't appear in the Sent Folder...

Is this the normal for Mail, or is there something I'm not doing to make these forwarded emails appear in my Sent folder?

That would explain why they are or are not saved *on the server*, but not why they are not saved locally...
The OP does not see them in his sent mail, local.
Or would the server parameter also control local copies...?
Grant

Sent an email, but it didn't show up in my sent folder - any way to find it?

Sent an email, but it did not show up in my sent folder. (Heard it fly off)
Any way to find it?
Thanks

In order for a call to show in recents, the call has to make it to the phone. If you're in an area of very poor signal, the call may never get to the phone but will go instead to voice mail, where your caller may or may not leave a message. I realize that doesn't explain what you seem to have seen recently. However, it would explain other instances where you've had no notification but a voice mail.
Best of luck.

Sent messages only appear in the sent folder after restarting Thunderbird

Hi, my problem is that sent messages do not appear in the sent folder unless I restart Thunderbird. I have the sent 'copies' box de-checked as if not although it syncs I end up with two copies (of sent messages).
I am using Thunderbird 31.2.0 on OSX Yosemite connecting via IMAP to ZOHO mail with STARTTLS on 587 for SMTP.
Hope you can advise, I've tried SSL/TLS on 465 also and it is the same. It's a bit of an inconvenience not being able to view the sent messages.
Many thanks

Interesting to know (the RFC violation) but as you say, perhaps not relevant as such, although if ZOHO wasn't auto-placing a copy in sent then I could check the 'place a copy in' option and it would work ok.
Anyhow, I tried your recommendations and yes, I use both an Android and an iPad to also check my mail but with both disconnected from Wi-Fi the problem still persists. There are a few warnings being reported in the TB error console on the Mac but they just relate to 'mso-table-lspace' for my INBOX.
And for info in Thunderbird on my Ubuntu laptop the problem is exactly the same -
'Place a copy' checked - Messages instantly appear in the sent folder but there are two copies.
'Place a copy' de-checked/Cached connections = 5 - Messages only appear in the sent folder after restarting Thunderbird
'Place a copy' de-checked/Cached connections = 1 - Messages appear in the sent folder on clicking out of the folder and back in.
On Ubuntu there is nothing at all in the error console.
I can work with how things are at this stage as I don't live in the sent folder (rather the inbox), and when you click into it (with the connections cache at 1) the messages do appear, so I suppose that's actually ok.

Have an iphone 3GS, 2 email accounts. My work email account used to work. Now if I send any emails from this account it only appears in my sent box. Recipients internal and external do not receive. IT person cannot figure why occurring. Any insight?

Have a iphone 3GS; 2 email accounts. one is for work. It used to work fine until about Feb 2011. Now when i send emails from my work account it only appears in the sent file. Recipients do not get email.
IT person looked at it & cannot find why this is happening.
Any insight why this is occurring??

This has nothing to do with your iPhone.
If a message is in the account's Sent mailbox, this means the message was successfully sent. If a message cannot be sent for whatever reason, it will remain in the Outbox.
What happens to a message after it was successfully sent has nothing to do with the email client or computer/device used to send the message.

Why Outlook email messages show unreadable characters

When you receive a new email in Outlook, you may see unreadable characters in the email message body. This issue could be caused by one of the following reasons on Outlook client side:
The email you received is converted to plain text format or a different encoding by a virus scanner.
This always happens when you are using characters (Such as apostrophes, double quotes, dashes, and ellipsis) supported by the "Smart Quotes" feature. When the email you received is converted to plain text format or a different encoding by a virus
scanner, the character is converted from the ASCII character to a Unicode character, which is not supported on the recipient’s side.
To prevent this issue from happening, we can turn off the “Smart Quotes” Feature in Outlook:
1. Open Outlook 2013.
2. Click File > Options > Mail.
3. Click Spelling and AutoCorrect button.
4. In the Editor Options window, click AutoCorrect Options button to open the AutoCorrect dialog.
5. Click AutoFormat tab, and then clear the check box before “Straight quotes” with “smart quotes” under Replace heading.
6. Click OK.
The issue may be related to font substitution when a change is made to the Web Options in Microsoft Word.
If a change is made to the Web Options in Microsoft Word, registry data under the following key may be configured incorrectly:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Word\Internet\Fonts
This problem has been seen to occur when the Latin string value under the \Fonts key was empty (no value).
We can check the Web Options setting in Word via:
1. Start Word.
2. Go to File > Options > Advanced.
3. Scroll down to the General section, click Web Options button.
4. Switch to Font tab.
To resolve the problem, we need to delete the \Fonts registry key. To do this, please follow:
1. Exit Word.
2. Press Windows key + R to open the Run command, type regedit and press Enter.
3. Navigate to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Word\Internet\Fonts
4. Right-click the Font key and select Delete.
5. Click Yes and exit Registry Editor.
The sender used an e-mail program that did not mark messages with a language encoding (character set), or marked messages with an incorrect encoding setting.
In this case, we will see unreadable characters when we open the received message in our Outlook. For example, European regional characters (like German) require UTF-8 encoding protocol. So if the encoding in your environment is set to ASCII, the regional
characters will not be available.
To resolve this issue, we need to change the encoding in Outlook to which will display your message correctly.
1. Double-click to open the message you received.
2. Click Actions button in the Move group under Message tab.
3. Click Other Actions > Encoding.
4. Click More and select the correct encoding setting for the email.
5. After you finish reading the message, close the message, and click Yes button to save changes to the message.
When we send an email with Outlook, we can set Outlook to automatically select encoding for outgoing email messages to increase the possibility that the recipient receiving the message will see all the characters rendered properly, even if they run older
e-mail programs. By default, Outlook 2013 will automatically select an optimal encoding for outgoing e-mail messages. We can change the settings here in Outlook 2013: File > Options > Advanced > International Options section.
Something you may need to know when you set the encoding settings:
* The Unicode (UTF-8) character enables the complete range of characters on all computers. It’s the official IANA code for the UTF-8 character encoding.
* Western European (ISO) and Western European (Windows) character set can be read by almost all computers.
* If you are using a language other than English, you must choose the correct character set for that language, or the characters you need will not be displayed correctly.
If you have any comments on this article, please feel free to post here.
Please click to vote if the post helps you. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

The "problem" is not really a problem. I send and receive emails fine. But the in the panel between the Inbox (message queue) and the reading pane this is displayed:
From Mozilla Support Forum <[email protected]> (white star)
Subject Toad-Hall posted an answer to your question "Why do received email messages show they are addressed to an address other than my own?"
Reply to [email protected] (white star)
To [email protected] yellow star)
cfortso@gmail is the address of one of my contacts.
This glitch is not really bothersome, I just can't imagine why it happens.

Email Messages with "-" Sender ID

Hi All,
Hope its going all well, we are facing a problem, in our Exchange daily logs, there is always so many logins with the user name '-' (hyphen), also in our spam filter outbound traffic daily report there are so many emails with same sender ID '-' what is it?
in Exchange Logs it shows logins from the different different IPs of different countries. I cant sort it out is it a virus, spam or what??
Virgo

Hi Zain,
I suggest checking SCL value in e-mail header.
I suggest double checking our Anti-Spam settings.
More details in the following articles:
Spam Confidence Level Threshold
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa995744(v=exchg.150).aspx
Anti-Spam Protection
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj218660(v=exchg.150).aspx
Enable Anti-Spam Functionality on a Mailbox Server
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb201691(v=exchg.150).aspx
Hope it is helpful
Thanks
Mavis
Mavis Huang
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HT4191 I have Notes that transferred to email when I set up a new email acct. They no longer appear in Notes. I can only access them in the email acct. How do I get them out of the email acct and back to the Notes app?

I have Notes that transferred to an Email acct when I set up the acct. The Notes no longer appear in the Notes app only in the Email acct. How do I get them out of the Email acct and back to Notes? I stopped at an Apple store and they told me to copy them from the email back to Notes. But when I was in the email acct, I could not find a way to copy them. Shouldn't Notes remain in Notes unless I specifically send them somewhere else?

Go into Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars, select that email account on the right-hand side of the screen and turn Notes 'on' for it - they should then appear in the Notes app instead of as an email folder in the Mail app (they will still be linked to that email account, so you may need to tap the 'Accounts' button at at the top left of the list of notes)

TS2998 today for some reason i can receive email but when i send a simple two word email it wont send just sits there with the sent icon spinning

Today tring to send email and it just sits there and thinks.... can receive email but not send even a two word message ..any ideas ???

Check your connections with Mail->Window->Connection Doctor

When I send an email, it won't put a copy in my "Sent" folder, can I fix this?

I have selected to put a copy in my "Sent" folder, and occasionally it will do it just, blip, blip, almost instantly.
Then most of the time it spends a minute or two trying to put a copy in the sent folder, says there was an error in doing so do I want to "try again", but trying again doesn't work. Only way to get rid of the "write" page is to say don't try. I hope somebody knows how to fix that. I'd sure like to. It seems to have actually
sent the message, but no copy in the sent folder to assure me of that. If I put my own address with another email handler and the Bcc checked, I get the sent message, but still no copy in my sent folder. Am I doing something wrong? Thanks, D.Fox

No you're not doing anything wrong. Thunderbird looses the ability to move messages to folders on some random schedule. For me it usually only happens once every 10 days or so though I did go through a period where it was happening daily. Others have it happen all the time. There have been lots of threads spread out over months. Many people post that they did "something" and "something" it fixed it, but a few days later they come back and say "Whoops - spoke too soon!".
I think all we can do is hope someone finds it and fixes it someday.

My email message disappears off the page before it is sent or saved.

Sometimes my email message disappears (zooms to the right) before it is sent or saved (I use Safari). How can I retrieve that message?

Try the suggestion made in this thread.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/19556862#19556862

Sending email succeeds, but hangs forever trying to save to 'sent' folder

I have recently transferred to TB from Outlook. Running a Windows 7 machine, and imported my previous files and emails from Outlook.
I repeatedly have problems with TB hanging on the green bar when saving to the 'sent' folder. The email has sent Ok but it just sticks at the full green bar trying to save. If you cancel and try to save as a draft it will just hang too. Then I noticed that when this bug appears I can't move or delete any email in TB.
Problem will disappear temporarily if I restart TB. And seems to appear especially when laptop goes into sleep mode. Thought I could get round the problem by simply making sure TB was closed when I left the laptop so that I could restart when waking the machine but have now found that even when starting TB the problem is often there and I have to close and restart.

I've been using Thunderbird for 8 months and I haven't found a solution to this. I have several times thought I had found some thing/behavior/option that made it go away but it comes back. For awhile I thought that having the Thunderbird activity manager window up made the problem go away because I ran for several weeks like that without an incident. You'll see that posted in quite of few of the other threads as well. (Not specifically the activity manager - everyone has a period without the problem and they think it must be the last change they made - but it's never the same change.) For me the time between hangs has varied from approximately 4 hours to about 4 weeks so it's a pain to try to pin it on anything.
I've also compared add-ons and settings can can't find anything obviously in common with the others that have it. Happens in 24 - 3x versions at least. Compact/repairing seems to be a generic "try this" sort of solution for any odd behavior but doesn't seem to relate to this issue.
Also, I believe I have seen it reported on Windows, OS X and Linux with a wide selection of AVs an no AV in one case. So there seems to be a piece of core code that just mysteriously gets unhappy in conditions that no one has been able to pin down yet. If you ever find anything that works for you - please let us know!!!

Why do i get 2 copies of outgoing mails in my sent folder

I have used one e-mail account (eclipse.co.uk) for years. I recently added two more. With one (Hotmail.co.uk) whenever I send a message I get two copies in the 'Sent' folder. This does not happen with the other accounts.
On the third account (plus.com) some of the incoming messages appear twice in the inbox. This doesn't happen on the other accounts

I made a big mistake ! I am using Thunderbird Mail not Firefox.
I took your link and found an answer to the two messages in the Sent folder but didn't see anything about duplicate incoming messages.
I recently transferred to Plusnet. On the first day 5 messages to me on my new address, all from them, only appeared once. Subsequently all messages from them appear twice. Messages I have sent to myself only appear once.
Thanks for your help - sorry about confusing the original request for help.

Why do email messages I send no longer appear in my sent folder?

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