Why are my sent e-mails staying in my Drafts folder?

I have an iMac OS X 10.9.1. When I send e-mails (EM) from my Google IMAP accounts, the sent EM stays in my Drafts folder.
I went to Preferences and then the Accounts and changed the criteria to Not store draft messages on the server. I then Save the change. When I go back to the account, the change has not been saved.

Hi JP - My 3 e-mail providers are Gmail, iCloud & GoDaddy, they use IMAP.
Mail used to check for new mail automatically every minute and it would come in with a prompt time stamp. Now I can have e-mails store-up for 2-3 hours before they come in. People will ask if I got their e-mail because of no reply. Pushing the refresh (send/receive) button doesn't bring them in, I have to quit the Mail program and relaunch it or "take all accounts offline" and then "take all accounts online" before they will come into the inbox, and with old time stamps.
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