Mail won't save drafts or sent messages.

Mail wont save any of my sent messages or drafts anymore, even though I have the setting set to store them in preferences. Am I missing something?

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Message settings
Select Menu > Messaging and More >
Message settings.
Select from the following:
General settings — Save copies of sent
messages in your device, overwrite old
messages if the message memory
becomes full, and set
menu,messaging options and then more
the save sent message has been replace by notes i think have a look here
Drafts folder is no longer in Messaging and has been replaced by Notes.
Select Menu -> Apps -> Notes-> Create a note and Select Options-> Send note ->Send as message
also check for a software update
If i have helped at all a click on the white star below would be nice thanks.
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Hi,
For some reason, Mail won't save what I type into the Subject field for messages in the Drafts folder.
Why?
I can save in any other field for any message in the Drafts folder... This has been going on for awhile, both with Mavericks and Yosemite though it worked earlier with Mavericks.
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I just got this computer- a hand me down from my boyfriend- and I am having trouble adjusting to Mail. It does not save the mail that I write, and in fact tells me so every time I start writing a new mail message. The preferences are enabled to save sent mail-- but the computer also tells me there's an error every time i start up the computer.
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This whole thing is very confusing to me and I'm sorry if I seem vague. This new computer is fabulous- but I'm used to my ancient blue G3 and Entourage.
I believe that my account is an IMAP account. I followed your directions, substituting "IMAP" for "POP." I sent a sample email, and a pop down menu did not appear and warn me that my mail could not be saved. However, it is not in the saved messages folder.
Just to clarify, on the left of the Mail screen there is an Inbox, with smaller subfolders: Drafts, Sent & Trash. These folders mirror what is on my account online. Under this is a little paper airplane icon that says Sent. This continues to be empty, no matter what I do. The preferences are set to Never delete sent messages. Also, if I hit "save as draft," I get a message that says, "The message could not be saved."
Would trashing the Norton stuff help? I'm not sure if that is related to this question.
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I'm using version 1.4.1.
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Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:14:37 -0600 (CST)
From: test
To: test
Subject: test
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary="----=_Part_11_13738728.1258643679164"
X-Priority: 3
------=_Part_11_13738728.1258643679164
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
test
------=_Part_11_13738728.1258643679164
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I've searched the HELP topics and have not seen how to solve this problem. I have multiple accounts set up in Mail; a couple are yahoo.com/sbcglobal.net accounts and a couple are through two different companies for which I work. Most of them are set up as POP accounts, and they are behaving properly. The problem is with the one that is set up as an IMAP account. It successfully sends and receives mail, but it will not save drafts or the outgoing mail. I realize I can blind-copy myself and have the messages saved as incoming, but I'd really like them saved as drafts and outgoing. Thanks for any advice!

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If you are having an issue with your MacBook Air's Mail application not saving the Sent mail, you may want to check your Mail Preferences under Accounts > your account > Mailbox Behaviors > Sent. What is the setting for Delete sent messages when: set to? You may wish to change this setting. See this article -
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MAIL 2.13 & gMAIL - seems to auto save drafts without me doing anything - is there a way to turn this off so it is only manual?

My suggestion is that you turn off the "Store draft messages on the server" in the Account info settings, under *Mail Behaviors.* (Go to Mail Preferences ==> Accounts; or click on the Associated Mailbox and then Right Click to get Account Info. Either approach will get you to the property pages where you will see the Behaviors tab)
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While I can save a sent email as a text file to my chosen location, I don't seem to be able to do the same with a message I have just composed. Can it be that I must first send an email before I am allowed to save it outside the Mail app? My first thought was that maybe I had to use Save on a new message before I could Save As but this was not the case. Save As just doesn't appear to work unless a message has been sent - which forces me to make an extra couple of mouse clicks than I should surely need to...
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Thanks but that's the same number of steps as Send then Save As - I was hoping for the facility to save a new message straight to a text file before sending it... I guess I've been spoilt by Eudora 3!
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Since I have the last OS X 10.6.6 update, I dont receive anymore the Cc copy which I send to myself
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Similarly I cannot send a mail to myself as a verification process of my external mail provider. The copy is stored in the sent copy box, but it doesnt arrive in the in box (boite de reception)
How can I get back to the former situation in which I could send copies to myself or send mail to myself
Thanks for any hint
Claude

The first exception is this:
http://java.sun.com/products/javamail/FAQ.html#norelay
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Since a few days, another SENT Messages folder is used by Mail to store my sent e-mails. I'm using 2 Macs and one iPhone. Before, all 3 devices used the same SENT Messages folder. However, at the moment my 2 Macs use the SENT Messages ([email protected]) folder to store the sent e-mails, while my iPhone still uses the 'normal' SENT Messages folder. I have no clue why my Macs suddenly decided to use the SENT Messages ([email protected]) folder (so with an e-mailaddress behind it).
If you have any idea why this happened, please let me know. Any help will be appreciated! If you need some more information, also let me know!

I'm not sure why you have to Sent mail folders. You can report bugs here.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html
One more thing to try. Quit Mail if it's open.
Locate this file. com.apple.mail.plist
Move that file to the Desktop. Launch Mail.
If it functions as it should, go to Mail/Preferences. Make note of your Mail preferences, then delete that .plist file.
Carolyn

Won't Save Drafts in Mail

I've seen various problems reported with the Draft mailbox...
My problem, very similar to other recent reports-- My drafts disappear (after closing and reopening Mail). My drafts have been faithfully saved for years, until recently ,until 10.5.4. I think it is 10.5.5 where the problem began for me. Manually saving also fails to save a draft in the Draft box.
Exception to this-- A very unsatisfactory work around is to -- Search one's name (official name in computer) and arrange the results by date-- There i find my currently lost messages, sorted by date.
Please fix Mail, and all the vital basics, instead of adding so much useless fluff, in each major upgrade

Hello boa:
I recommend you send your suggestions to Apple via the OS X feedback facility. These forums are user to user and are not the best way to feed Apple suggestions.
I would, if I were you, rebuild the mailbox (draft) that is causing problems. Since I have never encountered the problem you posted, I have not had any troubleshooting experience in that area.
Barry

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