Sent messages not in Sent folder

[drjamie03]

I just checked my sent folder for an email sent recently and found that there wasn't much there! It's only showing maybe one or two messages that were sent a day, and I send out far more than that. Any ideas where they might be, or what I can do to fix this?

[Tomas]

Make sure you didn't have a focus box running (eg. with "focus on messages from today").
It might be some filter, or different outgoing folder setup, even a folder corruption, .......

First best make a good backup to a safe location that will not be overwritten for some time (of at least Sent.mbx, Sent.idb, Sent.dat, Sent.~idb, Sent.~mbx), so that some steps will not cause the data to be lost (under certain circumstances) if the data are still present.