Mail sends message every several seconds

I have Gmail configured for IMAP, but when I am writing a large message, Mail shows "Sending Mail" at a roughly 10-30 second interval, which I thought was Mail saving drafts, but once I checked my online Gmail account, the email was sent, in several different parts, 29 times. Am I doing something wrong?

karol wrote:
I recall a somewhat similar situation when one guy texted another guy during a lecture.
He did send the message, but the other guy's phone didn't seem to get it. It was silent. So he send it again. And again. To make it even "better", it was a two-part message ...
For a while nothing happened and then the other guy's phone starter receiving all these messages. He had a loud, high-pitched ringtone on his phone. And he had his phone ... somewhere. Was it in his backpack? Was it in his bag? In his jacket?
Chaos ensued.
So you can see it could have been worse :-)
Haha, fair enough I was reminded of the "Look Around You" opening sequence.
10 PRINT LOOK AROUND YOU
20 GOTO 10
30 RUN
Set-up a gmail filter to delete them as they come in; that should hold me over for the time being.
Solved.
Last edited by apolyonn (2014-03-20 00:38:06)

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Last edited by apolyonn (2014-03-20 01:37:08)

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