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Apple Mail (10.7) Sent Emails...where are they

I have sent over 140 emails since August 3rd using OSX Lion and NONE, Yes NONE are showing in Apple Mail's "Sent" files.

As usual I went back to Outlook 2011 and all 142 sent emails are there.

What the heck is going on with Apple Mail??????

....Cannot search for anything

.....Cannot find sent emails

and more..

Hate to say that so far Outlook 2011 is MUCH better, but I hope that this is not true and someone can give us a reason why so far Apple Mail is a HUGE disappointment.

Thx Much

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Aug 9, 2011 4:43 PM

31 replies

Aug 10, 2011 5:33 AM in response to Fred Davenport

Hi Fred,

Yes that works but in my case only temporarily. Come and tell us if it does the same to you.

Nick

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Aug 10, 2011 5:43 AM in response to Fred Davenport

It's no coincidence that Outlook is the best Exchange client out there, but your experience with Mail is not typical, post back if the re-made account starts misbehaving

Aug 10, 2011 6:06 AM in response to Nicholas Dring

Thx Nick,

Will do

Aug 10, 2011 12:01 PM in response to Csound1

I've tried every now and then to use outlook, but in the end I get fustrated and end up going back to mail, which is perfect either...

One last note, i have three mac's, two mbp's and a mac pro.

The only one that has this issue is the mac pro, which was upgraded to Lion through using the lion updater app.

The others were installed a fresh on newly formatted drives.

Nick

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Aug 10, 2011 12:08 PM in response to Fred Davenport

Hi Fred

Just FYI, I use Apple Mail with multiple Exchange Servers, mainly Exchange 2010 and 2007, when confronted with a 2003 Exchange server I use DavMail to connect it to Apple Mail. I have no issues at all connecting to Exchange servers.

Aug 10, 2011 4:35 PM in response to Fred Davenport

Boy's.

This really, really, really s---ks!! Just sent some very, very important emails and now they are NOT seen at all in my sent mails in Apple Mail.

Something is terribly WRONG on Apple Mail.

What really, really, really s--ks is that I go to Ootlook 2011 and the sent emails and a very good search process are all there.

I WANT to use Apple Mail, but I cannot properly use it.

Come one Apple!!! Your most loyal users are ticked off that Apple Mail is still JV software...please, please, please listen to use.

p.s. yes I have sent this to "feedback"

Aug 17, 2011 12:35 AM in response to Fred Davenport

I deleted one of my exchange accounts from the settings on the 10th. Its still showing the sent items folder as I write. I'd done this before to try to fix it but a few days afterwards it disappeared again.

The only difference this time was that on the 10th I also ran a permissions repair, thinking maybe it was a permissions issue.

Fingers crossed it remains. I'm going to delete/add my other exchange accounts now, hopefully they'll be ok too.

Aug 17, 2011 12:38 AM in response to Csound1

Yeah 2003 exchange didn't play nice with mail. I always used pop in those cases. Our institute moved to exchange 2007 a year ago which made things much better.

Aug 17, 2011 7:09 PM in response to Nicholas Dring

Do You think the Zookeeper's Update of Lion to 10.7.1 will help improve the very bad Apple Mail's search and sent files being so lost?

Aug 31, 2011 5:19 AM in response to Fred Davenport

Solution provided by my phone call with Apple was to close Mail then go to Library/Preferences and delete the com.apple.mail.plist and com.apple.mail.plist.lockfile. I actually solved the problem beautifully.

Hope this helps as well as it did for me

Cheers

Aug 31, 2011 4:22 PM in response to petitsuix

Thx Much Petit,

Are you using 10.7? Finding the Library/Preferences can be a real adventure in 10.7.

Will give this a try.

Aug 31, 2011 4:23 PM in response to Nicholas Dring

Thx Nich,

I think I got my sent mails back, now I cannot see ANY of my Trash/Deleted emails anymore.

Something is not right with 10.7.

Sep 1, 2011 10:42 AM in response to Fred Davenport

I give up!!!!

10.7 Mail Stnks and I mean stinks.

After two weeks of using Mail, I know cannot see my sent files, cannot see my deleted trash files.

Way too much going on on campus this time of year to have Mail be sooo terribly bad at the worse time of the year.

Hope the Zookeeprs know how much they having really hurt and annoyed us with this bad, very bad Mail appl in Lion.

I hate to do this, But I MUST go back to Outlook 2011.

Yup and I am now using a brand new MacBook Pro, and the same thing is happening that happened on my previous MBP.

Very, Very, Very disappointing

Csound1

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Sep 1, 2011 11:12 AM in response to Fred Davenport

Apple Mil and Outlook 2011 use the same methods to connect to the server, check your setup in Apple Mail.

Sep 1, 2011 6:43 PM in response to Csound1

Thx much CS,

Been using Apple products for 30+ years and Apple Mail since it first came out and it is an absolute "Gong Show" using Mail.

I have done all ask me to do my deleting/moving the Apple Mail Preferences files and still stinks.

It is very, very bad. Whenever I add a 2nd account to Mail, I lose all my sent, deleted and other files.

This is terrible and hope the "Zookeepers" of Lion are aware how very, very bad Mail is.

I hate to say this, but Now back to Outlook 2011

Apple Mail (10.7) Sent Emails...where are they