Hi again Paul, I just read you have tried rebuilding the Mailbox.
If this is a POP Account, check that Mail Account Preferences. Mail > Preferences > Accounts - Select the Mail Account you are having the problem in Click on the Mailbox Behaviors button And check Sent: Delete sent messages when: select 'Never'. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 21/08/2013, at 10:53 AM, Ronda Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote: > Hi Paul, > > To enable us to help better please always include what OS X version are you > running? And what Mail Application you are using. > Are you using Apple Mail App? > > 1. Open Mail > 2. Highlight (click once) on the Sent Mailbox > 3. Then choose Mailbox > Rebuild (from the top Menu) > > Rebuild creates the index to the messages and does not cause them to be lost. > During Rebuild all messages in the Mailbox will briefly disappear from the > list of messages, but they will reappear. > > Let us know how you get on please. > > Cheers, > Ronni > > Sent from Ronni's iPad4 > > On 21/08/2013, at 10:21 AM, Paul Willemse <p...@thelink.to> wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> My Sent Mail box appears to be behaving strangely. It shows only send mails >> for two days then they disappear. There are some emails showing for several >> years back from early August. >> >> I have rebuild the Sent box but none of the recent emails shows up. Is there >> a setting to control the time sent emails are retained, if so I can not find >> it. >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> Regards, >> >> Paul >> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>