Sent mail occasionally vanishes (but is sent)
I’m getting an intermittant (ie: hard to pin down) problem on both of my IMAP accounts, Sometimes, when I send an email, the message is sent (I get the whoosh noise, and the recipient does receive it) but my copy disappears without a trace. Not stored locally, and not stored on the server (I’ve checked via webmail). As somebody who keeps every email either sent or received that is part of a client conversation, this is a problem, as I now have gaps in my permanent record.
Just to cover the basic questions:
- Yes, I have the account preferences set to store messages on the server, and never to delete them;
- I am unable to determine any particular trigger for this problem;
- I have a broadband connection functioning at a reasonable speed;
- Mail 4.5, OS X 10.6.8;
- The problem occurred under Leopard, too;
Other threads on these discussion forums reference the same problem; often the discussions start to focus on the problem being linked to whatever specific ISP the original poster is using, but with almost everybody who posts this problem having a different ISP/mail host, I am of the opinion that this is simply a Mail bug, independant of specific ISPs or mail servers. Also, none of the threads have come up with a satisfactory solution AFAIK.
If anyone has anything they can suggest to correct this issue then please chime in, because it's becoming an increasingly problematic phenomenon, and seems to be getting more frequent.
Thanks;
Rick