Drafts won't save in mail

I'm using Apple Mail with an IMAP service and whenever I try to save a draft I get an error that tells me that the draft cannot be saved. Do any of you know how to solve this problem?
I'm thinking maybe it has to do with my mail server (I'm guessing IMAP would try to save the draft to the server's online storage instead of just on my HDD)

I seemed to fix my own problem. I set Mail to save the drafts on my hard drive. I guess it was just the mail server not accepting the drafts

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