MacBook, iPhone 4, iMac, iPad, iPod(s), Mac OS X (10.6.4)
I wonder if there is a glitch. I have two POP accounts that were not showing Sent folders. Once I sent an original email from each, both Sent folders then appeared. Hope this helps others who know they're looking for Sent in the right place but don't see them.
Fast forward to 2012 Iphone 4s & I had the same issue. NO Sent Mail! No Drafts! No Trash! for any of my IMAP email acounts. I'm a power user and was very happy with my samsng epic 4g until the screen died...so I gave iphone a shot. Nearly returned it. First Genius Bar guy was nice but couldn't find the answer. I went back and we solved the issue just now.
1. go to settings
2. then Mail
3. tap the imap acount
4. tap the Account email address in blue
5. scroll down to "Advanced"
6. tap drafts - (HERE's WHERE APPLE IS NUTS! ) it shows checked but you click it any way! hit accounts upper left Now it shows "ON MY IPHONE" sorry but where else woud it go?!
7. tap sent - same thing click it any way & hit accounts
8. tap trash - same thing click it any way & hit accounts
9**** hit "DONE" upper right or it will not save
Unreal that's it now I have Sent, Drafts and Trash all working.
This IPhone was 2 seconds away from getting returned to Sprint for the google nexus...still might!
Hope this helps and hope Apple gets this glitch solved.
I know it has been a while since this post, however I had the same issues and nothing helped me until I cam across this fix, thought I would share. It worked for me and I am finally able to see my sent messages!
To get my Sent folder to reappear, I selected a message in the Inbox of the account in question, went to Mailbox, selected "Move to Favorite Mailbox", and clicked on "Sent." My Sent folder for the account in question reappeared under the "Sent" category of the Mail sidebar, and Mail began downloading all of the messages in that folder.
Where is my "Sent Mail" folder?
