Draft mailbox shows one letter. When I open it there is no letter.

Hi All;
I have a strange one. My draft mailbox says it has a letter in it. When I open the mailbox there is no letter. This is a pop mailbox. I have rebuilt the mailbox. I have gone onto my ISP servers and deleted all messages there all without have any effect on the ghost message. Does anyone have any additional ideas?
Allan

There are a couple of inconsistencies in some of the information you’ve posted (you appear to have typed manually some folder names), but the real issue here is that your account folders use odd naming conventions (the ‘/’ path separator shouldn’t be part of the name of those folders), probably because they originated in a really old version of Mac OS X. Even though the problem you currently have isn’t serious, I’d just set up Mail again from scratch and import your mail back afterwards:
1. If you have a .Mac account and .Mac synchronization of Mail data is enabled either in Mail > Preferences > General or in System Preferences > .Mac, disable it before proceeding.
2. Quit Mail if it’s running.
3. In the Finder, go to ~/Library/. Move (not copy) the entire Mail folder out of there, to the Desktop.
4. In the Finder, go to ~/Library/Preferences/. Locate com.apple.mail.plist and move it to the Desktop.
5. Open Mail and set it up again from scratch. If given the option to import existing mailboxes or something like that, don’t. Just enter the account information and check that everything works fine.
6. You’ll have to re-configure all your settings in Mail > Preferences. For spam-related security reasons, the first thing you should do is go to Preferences > Viewing and disable Display remote images in HTML messages if it’s enabled.
7. If Mail works fine now and you had any messages stored in local mailboxes, do File > Import Mailboxes, choose Mail for Mac OS X as the data format, and follow the instructions to import your mail from the old Mail folder that’s now on the Desktop. Import the Mailboxes folder first, then each of the POP-username@mailserver account folders. Again, Mail may choke on any folders with a ‘/’ path separator in their name, so I suggest renaming your POP account folder before importing it (e.g. replace ‘/’ with ‘-’).
8. If .Mac synchronization of Mail data was enabled at the beginning, enable it again, go to System Preferences > .Mac > Advanced, click Reset Sync Data, and choose the appropriate options to reset the Mail data stored on the .Mac server with the data locally stored on the computer, i.e. sync data must flow from the computer to the .Mac server.
As a result of doing the above, some messages may be duplicated. Andreas Amann’s Mail Scripts has a Remove Duplicates script that you may find useful.
Do with the imported mail whatever you wish. You may move the messages anywhere you wish and get rid of the imported mailboxes afterwards.
If all is well and you don’t miss anything, the files on the Desktop can be deleted, although you may want to keep them for a while, just in case.
BTW, a side effect of re-creating your Mail database will probably be a significant decrease in the overall size of the ~/Library/Mail folder. You currently have a lot of obsolete files there that Mail 2.x no longer uses but that it leaves there after the conversion from Mail 1.x — see Mac OS X 10.4 Mail: Some mailbox files used by Mac OS X 10.3 are not deleted after importing.
Note: For those not familiarized with the ~/ notation, it refers to the user’s home folder. You can easily locate any of the folders referred to in this post by copying the folder path here, doing Go > Go to Folder in the Finder, and pasting the folder path there.

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