Yosemite sent mail vanished

I have a mid-2011 iMac which I upgraded to Yosemite via a nuke and pave as things were a bit clunky and my son likes to tinker... Everything appears to be working really well until this...
Yesterday and again today, I spent over an hour writing a detailed email to my accountant that attached several PDFs. I hit send and briefly saw it in the outbox. It is now totally vanished - there is no copy in the sent messages folder.
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!

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