Cannot delete messages from the Drafts folder in Mail.

I am running Mail 2.1.3. For some reason I am no longer able to delete draft messages from my Drafts folder. It is by no means a serious problem, just annoying! Can anyone figure this out? Thanks.

Hi Dubaiman, and a warm welcome to the forums!
I'm having trouble finding exactly where that is stored, but maybe move these to the Desktop in case we want to put them back, quit Mail first...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/[email protected]/.mboxCa che.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/Mailboxes/.mboxCache.plist

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Oops, my mistake, sorry. Ok, so the Administrator cannot delete user koberg.
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And if you still can't delete it, verify the groups:
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