Mail is putting multiple copies of sent emails in my drafts folder, or in trash.

Mail is putting copies of emails successfully sent in my drafts folder, sometimes multiple copies, sometimes in trash.
Also, new email keeps entering my inbox after I've moved it to other mailboxes or to the trash or junk mail. Also, if I search for a name to which I have sent or from which I have received an email, the results shows a copy of each mail in all these mailboxes: Important, All Mail, Sent Mail, Sent G-Mail. This is a recent phenomenon. For every sent email I get 5 copies in my trash box.

I phoned up Appe Support yesterday and i discovered that SOME (not all) of my trouble was caused by my 2 Gmail accounts, which werent correctly designated as Gmail Server WITH the correct password, it was set to use the server from one of my other accounts.
I do still have another problem which doesnt go away, i open Mail normally and there is ghost Open Window, which cannot be opened, to view my Mail i have to open a NEW viewer window, even though there is a Window open all ready, the Ghost window !
Tim

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Multiple copies of same message accumulate in Drafts folder. How do we correct this behavior?

My wife is the buyer for our business. She will begin an email to a supplier at some point in the day, and will build upon it throughout the day, bouncing between the email and the Point of Sale system and catalogs and supplier websites (and other non-related things) until she is satisfied with her order, then she will send it off. It seems that every time she leaves the message that she is composing a copy of it is made in the drafts folder. She she'll get a dozen or more copies of the same draft accumulating in there. That makes it cluttered and confusing - especially since she will often have as many as ten different emails that she is working on throughout the day. (It's a complex world and she is a complex person!) The drafts folder becomes very full.
Normally, if she exits from a message that she is composing (a draft) it asks if she wants to save it. She says yes, but all of those earlier copies still exist and do not go away until she manually deletes them. This can take a lot of time and once in a while she accidentally deletes the latest copy.
Maybe there is a setting that corrects this, but I cannot find it. From our perspective something is broken. Oddly, it doesn't do this on my system, but does do it on the computer in our store, too. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Summary to reproduce:
1. Start a new email and add some text to it.
2. Go off and do some other work.
3. Come back and add some more to it.
4. Make a few loops back to #2 then go on.
5. Exit from the email without sending. Click on "save a copy in drafts".
6. Go look at the drafts folder and it will have multiple earlier drafts of the same message.
7. While manually deleting excess drafts, accidentally delete the most recent one.
8. Jump up and down, cursing and throw something at your spouse who has been unable to fix this problem on his own.

Ick. So it can't just work sensibly? Sensible would be either autosave overwrites previously autosaved versions or all autosaved versions would be deleted when the message is finally sent. Allowing previous message versions to accumulate endlessly might be beneficial to someone, but does not seem like sensible default behavior.

Mail is putting my emails in the draft folder even though they have been sent. What gives?

Mail is putting my emails in the draft folder and leaving them there even after they have been sent. This is not happening all the time, but enough that it's annoying. What gives? and how do I fix it?

It happens on both my Mac Air and my iMac. Both are version 10.7.5

Multiple copies of same emails

Hey,
My problem started few days ago, I received multiple copies of same emails (about 5 copies/email). Now I tried to delete those copies using the plugin (Remove multiple messages) but it doesn't seem to delete. Still shows same amount of emails (about 35000), about 28000 needs to be deleted, in my inbox folder.
So when I try to get new emails, it says hard-drive is full etc... it isn't full. Webmail works great, but only have the latest 7days emails.
I'm using POP. please help to fix this fast.

Were you able to resolve this problem? I have the same issue, but on a macbook pro.

Apple Mail + Mobile Me: A copy of successfully sent email stays in Drafts.

Sometimes, after successfully sending an email - it's transferred in to "Sent" folder as it should, but another copy of it stays in Drafts.
Any ideas how to fix that?
Regards,
Fade

I read this post yesterday and thought, "that's strange". About an hour later it started happening to me. I sent an email, it seemed to be taking a little long to send it and it stuck it in "Drafts" and finally sent it successfully (it's still in drafts though). This morning I now have 2 copies of the SAME email in my "Drafts" folder. They're multiplying!
Why would this just start today? I guess I haven't sent a lot of email the last few days. This is a brand new MacBook Pro, with a clean install of Snow Leopard, and I am NOT impressed. It has been one issue after another since day one. My 6 year old 1.25GHz G4 Powerbook was much more reliable. I think I just wasted $2000.

TS3276 sent emails are in draft

Bear with me I am new to the community and not particularily tech saavy. On occassion copies of sent emails are finding their way into my Draft folder. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks for your help.

You're welcome
I forgot to mention to to that in Mail's preferences, but I guess you figured that out.

Regarding my mail service, I placed all my family emails in a "family " folder. All of a sudden, it's gone. How do I get it back? e.

Regarding my mail site, I placed all my family emails in a "family" folder. Today it was gone. How can I retrieve my family folder?

you should look in your applications folder to see if mail is still there. the dock icon is pointing to mail being in your applications folder. it has probably been moved or deleted for some reason from the app folder. do a spotlight search for your mail program. if it is still on your computer, move it back to the applications folder and when you click the question mark, it should see it is back and open. The email folder in your library shouldn't have to be touched. you need mail.app itself.

Ever since i upgraded my os to lion, my quickbooks can not send emails to my draft folder in mail. help!

ever since i upgraded my os to lion, my quickbooks can not send emails to my draft folder in mail. help!

Snow Leopard breaks quite a few drivers - my Canon exhibited the same problem.
I eventually found updated drivers on the Canon website. You can try that with the HP, but if the all-in-one is more than a year or so old, don't hold your breath.
You can also try Software Update to see if it will offer new drivers, or failing that go to the Support Downloads site and search for HP updates.
In fact there's a new one for HP at the top of the list just now.
You may not necessarily want the latest one, though - check the specs to see if your model is covered; if not, search for the previous update etc.

An Email in progress leaves me with 5-8-10 drafts of the same email in my draft folder

Now, when i am working on an email for awhile, and then finally send it, I find 5-8-10 drafts of the email in my draft folder. Previously it saved periodically and once the em was sent, the draft disappeared. Now I have to cintinually clean out the draft folder of useless duplicates. And the delete is slow.
I STILL can't find anything with the search command. And f I try to search- I can not see emails in ANY folder until I ave logged out and logged back in. If I log in too quickly - I still can;t see emails.- just felt like whining.....
Icloud email is unbelievably dis-appointing. I would think we would see improvements everyday- but its like they have given this to us and gone out to lunch.
Thx

This has rendered my account unusable. Leaving mail open for any time can create hundreds of duplicates. There is no problem with duplicate downloads on my iPhone.

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Please read and begin using Can receive email, but not send email. I had a similar issue with Comcast mail (could receive by not send) and found my answer in this letter. For me it took resetting the outgoing mail and telling the system to use a password when sending outgoing mail. If you need help with that please advise and I'll tell you where to look.

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I am using an iMac with OS 10.9.4, Mail 7.3. My mail trash file contains multiple copies of partially complete messages I've sent. This problem seemed to begin when I began using "Maverick".

I have this exact same problem.
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I am using Mac Mail with OS X 10.8.2 with my Gmail account. When I compose an email it keeps quite a few draft copies of an email I am composing in the trash folder. The longer I take to compose the email the more copies there are. For example in an email I recently compose there were eighteen copies in the trash folder and one completed copy in the sent folder.. The copies are slightly different as drafts are being saved to the trash folder as I am composing the email. Is there any way to keep this from happening. It is annoying because when you go to trash you see so many slightly different copies of an email that wasn’t actually deleted, but was composed and sent. Thanks in advance.

I have this issue too. Very annoying.

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I have just recently noticed this problem and it seems to be getting worse. I am on Mountain Lion 10.8.1 and I'm using an exchange server (2010) email account.
I do not recall this problem being this bad in Lion. When I save a draft go back into it, make changes, it saves a bunch of copies. I just deleted about 30 emails from one draft.
The 2nd issue is it does not leave the draft folder when I actually send, so it appears I never sent it, but I did. This is extremely frustrating and not efficient. I use Mail for my business email and all my personal emails as well, but mainly business.
I don't like Outlook for Mac (too slow), and I really don't like Mail for Mac either since my contacts and calendar are all in different apps.
Does anyone have a solution for the DRAFTS folder issues and/or can you recommend another e-mail client that is better. Outlook 2011 for Mac is just too slow, the beach ball is always showing when I try to use Outlook. And I really prefer not to have to go back to Windows Outlook through Parallels. I can manage with Mail.app if I could resolve this Drafts issue. I save emails all day long so to double check each one to see if I actually sent it is too time consuming.
I'm running on a Macbook Pro, 2.2 Ghz Intel Core i7, 8 GB memory.
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I am too having the same issue. While working on Snow Leopard Mail app was working fine, bue te moment I upgraded to Lion OS, I began to see some mail laying around my draft folder. I thought they never left, but make a few call I found everyone was receiving my email, but for some strage reason, a copy stayed in drafts. I submitted this bug to Apple, and they actually told me they were aware of this issue and they were working on that. A year went by and we received Mountalion OS, and my iMac with Lion OS still has this issue. They never solved that. Now I am with this new iMac at home and and I am fighting myself not to use Mail app because, as far as I can see, the problme persist on Mountain Lion. So now, at this very moment I will give a try to PostBox (http://www.postbox-inc.com/)
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I have been fighting with Thunderbird for about a week now and have not had any luck resolving my problems. Any help would be greatly appreciated! I have tried all of the suggestions on the FAQ page.
Here are my symptoms:
-Getting multiple copies of the same email with the same time stamp.
-Not pulling new emails.
-Whenever I try to navigate up or down through the inbox or open an email TB goes to Not Responding.
-I have gotten the following script warnings:
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-I rebuilt the Global Database.
-Starting TB in safe mode did not seem to make much difference.
Fortunately I have access to webmail through my ISP and it works fine.
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