Mail remaining in the Draft-Folder after sending

When I write a mail that takes more than 10 minutes, it is automatically saved in the Draft-Folder.
Then, when it has been sent, it remains in the Draft-Folder.
If I relaunch the Mail-program, this same mail is twice present in the Draft-Folder (!!!).
This makes no sense, since the message has been sent.
Is that any new Bug with Mail and IMAP-protocol?

I have the same problem.
When I send an email
- one copy goes to the draft folder an another copy of the email goes to the sent folder.
I believe the copy in the draft folder is a ghost.
I went to my online goggle mail and saw the email was sent.

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could someone tell me why emails I am sending appear in the draft folder even after the email has been sent and is in the sent folder?

Do you get draft emails every time your write an email, or do you just have a pesky email in drafts? There's a big difference.
If it happens every time, it could be that your email isn't being sent to your recipient. If it happened only once, it's just an incomplete email you haven't sent or deleted yet.
Which is your situation?

Sending all e-mails out of the draft-folder

Is it possible so send all e-mails in the draftfolders at once? I know is possible with an AVB but do I have to use it also for outlook 2010.
thank u

Hi,
Just as our MVP mentioned, it's not possible to send all email in a folder at once. However, there are some workarounds. For example, we can disable “Send immediately when connected”. To do this, open your Outlook and go to File > Options > Advanced
> Scroll down to the "Send and receive" section. Clear the check box before "Send immediately when connected". Now, all sent items will stay in Outbox and Outlook will
only send messages during the scheduled send/receive interval (for instance, every 30 minutes).
For more information, please refer:
http://www.msoutlook.info/question/181
Hope this helps.
Best Regards,
Steve Fan
TechNet Community Support

After hitting send a draft is still saved in the draft folder.

When responding to an email it automatically saves into the draft folder which is great! However, after hitting send, the email stays in the draft folder. I do hear the "swoosh" sound so I know the email is sent, but I have to go in and delete the emails in the draft folder occassionally. I have received emails back from people even though the message is still in drafts so I know they are being received.

Is this a Gmail account? I've seen that behavior and the solution has been to turn off the feature of saving drafts to the server (see Mail - Preferences - Accounts - Mailbox Behaviors).
Matt

TS3276 Lion mail; sent emails show up in the draft folder as well as the sent folder. Often the draft will appear a day after the email was actually sent

Lion mail
Emails that have been Sent show up in the Draft folder as well as th e Sent folder.
Often they may not show up in Draft folder until the next day.
Is there a correction for this?

no, I only use mac as my incoming and outgoing server.
What I did was un check the draft box in the mail preferences,
and will see if that works. Since I use only the computer for emails
the cloud isnt being used to its max anyway.
Thanks taking time to share

Mails struck in Drafts folder after Transport Agent installed in Exchange Server 2013

Hi all,
I created Transport Agent and installed successfully in exchange server 2013.
After that mails are struck in drafts folder.
I thought because of My Custom transport Agent , then i Uninstall Transport agent.
but still no use.
I restart Microsoft Exchange Transport Service and restart my server also.
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Hi Martina
Miskovic,
Here I am facing some weird situation.
Mails again stuck in Drafts folder.
i didn't installed anything. just checking again after some
time gap .
I tried again by restarting all services
, but no use.

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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?

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Sending email leaves duplicates in the Draft Folder

When I am sending particularly large email messages, the email gets sent, but for some reason a duplicate of the message gets left in the Drafts Folder. So now I have the same email that I had just sent in the Drafts Folder and in the Sent Folder. So then I have to manually trash the message in the Drafts Folder.
This does not seem right. In the past the message in the Drafts folder has always deleted itself as soon as the email has been sent.

The last one that exhibited this behavior contained two photos that added up to 4.6MB.
But the size factor does not seem to enter in since the messages sailed out as they normally do complete with the Zooom sound that is assigned leaving behind the complete message sitting in both the Sent and Drafts folders. This leaves me with the housecleaning task of selecting the message in the Drafts folder and clicking the trash can.
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Thunderbird hangs with "Copying to sent folder" after sending mail

This is the same as has been reported by other users, however I have more info which I hope may be useful. (I haven't been able to receive my account confirmation email so created a new issue - separate problem!)
The solutions which have been previously suggested (repair folders, compact folders and archive sent folder) do not cure this issue for me, which happens to me roughly 2-3 times every day. Restarting TB cures it for a short while.
I've noticed that the problem almost always happens if I have a reminder that either is on screen or has recently popped up and been closed with a "1 hour reminder" (or other duration rather than dismissed).
I generally mark an email which requires me to act with a "convert to task" and a reminder. Today, for example, I received an email asking me to join a conference call this afternoon at 4:30. So I used "convert to task" and asked to be reminded at 4:15. This will almost certainly cause TB to hang later this afternoon when I send an email while the reminder is on screen. Reminders often sit unnoticed behind other windows and this is generally the case when the hanging takes place.
I'm using TB 31.1.1 on Ubuntu Gnome 14.04. I've only started having this problem in the last few months, at first every few days, but now several times a day.
So I don't think size of Sent folder is the cause of this issue (it also sometimes hangs when saving to the Drafts folder too, which is usually empty) - I'm convinced it's something to do with a problem caused by reminder notifications being on screen or pending. The fact that restarting TB allows emails to be stored correctly in the Sent folder without a problem (for a while!) means that size or corruption are not the likely causes.
Hope this helps others out there to pin this one down, even if I can't offer a solution - and any more info will be useful!

Today this has happened four times, so I've now decided I'll have to switch to a different email client. For now, I'll use Evolution but continue to watch this thread to see if a cure is offered.
Sorry to leave, as I like the product, but I can no longer work effectively when I have no confidence that my emails have been sent, and are not recorded in the Sent folder.

Mail Messages Going To Drafts Folder

Almost every mail message I compose - both new messages and replies - are showing up in the Drafts folder. These seem to be identical to messages after they are sent and appearing in the Sent folder. I'm not saving them at any time, so why would these messages go to "Drafts"?
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JD

While indeed unchecking this option stops the behavior, it's not the best of solutions. The options to save drafts on server is available with any decent IMAP program, and generally is very beneficial. Say I start a message on my Mac, and then have to leave before it's done. If it's saved to the server, I can then pick this message up later on my iPhone or iPad and complete it and send it. Or I can start it on an iOS device, have it save to the server from there, and then pick it up on my Mac later to complete.
So, the functionality of "Save drafts on server" is widely known amongst IMAP clients, and it would be nice if Apple Mail would simply replace a previous draft of a particular message with the latest version rather than piling up multiple versions of the email. Also, it's customary that when you eventually send the message, the drafts also disappear.
It would also help if there was a way to increase the auto-save time to a longer setting so that they don't pile up so fast.
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One messege is stuck in the draft folder

I sent and email the other day and it got to where it needed to go to. The problem is that there is a copy of it stuck in the draft folder. Mail has never done this before, it only did this to this particular messege. I have sent other messeges since with no problem. If I trash the prefs for Mail, what will I have to reset if anything? Will this solve it?
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Chris

Strange if these messages are re-appearing after deleting the Drafts mailbox for the associated account.
While composing a message, the message is temporarily saved in account's Drafts mailbox for the selected account to be used for sending the message.
If you have multiple accounts in Mail and you deleted the Drafts.mbox folder within the appropriate account named folder, the re-appearing messages must be coming from the account's Sent mailbox.
How many messages are available in this account's Sent mailbox and how often do you use the Rebuild Mailbox function on the Inbox and Sent mailbox for all accounts?

Mavericks Mail app and Gmail Drafts folder

After installing Mavericks I'm unable to unselect "Store draft messages on the server" and "Store sent messages on the server" checkboxes under my Gmail accounts settings. Unselecting both checkboxes and saving settings works for up to a minute or so - after that the check marks re-appear again by themselves. As a result I end up with dozens of half-finished drafts in the Trash folder after I finish the original and send it out.
I used to have both checkboxes unselected prior to Mavericks, and everything was working fine.
Any suggestions on how to fix this?

I have also the same issue. I'm not able to unselect "Store draft messages on the server"
Mail app just puts this tick back.

'Concept' or 'Drafts' folder counts send messages, but folder empty (IMAP)

In mail my 'concept' (dutch) or 'drafts' folder counter says there are messages in the folder, but the folder is empty.
Everytime i send a message with mail, my concepts folder counts up. When going to my Webmail en delte the "drafts" folder, The whole folder is gone. But when sending a new message the folder appears again, and counting up for every new message witch is send.
The folder is always empty, and the 'counter' disappears when looking in the folder but can appear again every moment.
Synchronising the account doesn't help.
Iam working on a Intel Imac, using a Imap server with 2 different accounts.

You're welcome.
There seems to be nothing amiss in your account folder, and from the description of what you did, it looks like trying to synchronize mail on both computers is indeed the cause of your problems. Synchronization of local mail data between computers by means of a file synchronization utility is a really bad idea if more than one computer is allowed to access mail between synchronizations.
The most prominent issue is that Mail keeps a reference to every message within the ~/Library/Mail/ folder in a global Envelope Index file. If this file is modified in more than one computer between synchronizations, there is no way a file synchronization utility can handle the situation properly.
Another, more subtle, and potentially more dangerous issue, is that Mail may use different *.emlx sequence numbers to name the same message in different computers or, worse yet, the same sequence number to name different messages in different computers. Again, the only thing a file synchronization utility can do about it is either overwrite files with the same name (thus potentially losing data) or not synchronize them at all.
Mail data "synchronization" at the filesystem level can only be done reliably if it's a one-way operation, i.e. if the entire contents of the Mail folder in one of the computers are overwritten by the entire contents of the other, and even then it may not work properly because of the issues described here:
Mac Backup Software Harmful
You're going to have to re-create both the index and the entire contents of the .Mac account folder on both computers:
1. Quit Mail.
2. In the Finder, go to ~/Library/Mail/. Make a backup copy of this folder, just in case something goes wrong -- e.g. by dragging it to the Desktop while holding the Option (Alt) key down.
3. Locate the Envelope Index file and move it to the Trash. If you see an Envelope Index-journal file there, delete it as well.
4. Move any "Mac-" or "IMAP-" account folder (Mac-neilwedlake in your case) to the Trash. Note that you can do this with IMAP-type accounts because they store mail on the server and Mail can easily re-create them. Doing the same with "POP-" account folders would cause all mail stored there to be lost.
5. Open Mail and proceed to re-create the index -- Mail says it's "importing", but it just re-creates Envelope Index if the mailboxes are already in Mail 2.x format.
Note: For those not familiarized with the ~/ notation, it refers to the user's home folder.

Several messages were in the Drafts folder when my isp went off line suddenly and when it came back hours later the draft messages were gone. How do I find them

I had 8 or 10 messages in the drafts folder. I had Thunderbird open when my isp had equipment problems and suddenly went off line on February 19, 2015. When it came back online the next morning all those drafts were gone. Is there some way I can retrieve them? If so, please send directions on how to do it. Thank you for any help you can give me.
Alta Flynt
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The top folder was Local Folders with Inbox, Sent Mail, Drafts, Trash and Archives under it. I had several messages in Archives and they went away when the Drafts messages went. Actually the only folder that wasn't emptied was the inbox. Those messages re-downloaded from the web mail.
What I understand from what you've written is that unless something was done when the mail account was set up, all my mail was on att/yahoo mail and they're the ones that lost my drafts.
If I'm wrong about it being an IMAP account and it was really POP, would that make a difference?
Alta

When I am writing an email, I get an alert message that says "The message could not be copied or moved to the drafts folder. Writing to the folder failed. To ga

When I am writing an email, I get an alert message that says “The message could not be copied or moved to the drafts folder. Writing to the folder failed. To gain disc space, choose Empty Deleted and choose Compact Folders and try again.”
If I do that, I get a message saying “There was an error copying to the Sent folder,, retry?”
If I retry it sends the uncompleted email. All I can do is keep deleting the message and carry on. Then the whole business might repeat itself.
Help!
Frank

Because the location for each song in your library is on your hard drive. If the hard drive isn't there, how can iTunes play it?
You'll have to move/copy the music from your hard drive to your computer's hard drive.
Basically, EASIEST way to do all this, if you don't care about your play counts, etc...
-Delete EVERYTHING from iTunes, so that your library is now empty.
-Go to "Advanced" inside of the "Preferences" window, found in the "Edit" drop-down. You can also access Preferences by pressing Ctrl+, (Press Ctrl and the comma key)
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-Now, drag and drop your music from your hard drive into your iTunes library. iTunes will automatically add the music to your library, as you would expect, and also creates a copy of each file to place into that iTunes Media Folder you just created.
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