Unable to delete "drafts"

This seems to be a common thing. No one has suggested a cure that works, other than trash your com.apple.mail.plist file, restart Mail, and then import the POP and IMAP accounts again. Pretty tedious.

I have a similar problem. Cannot delete message in my Outbox. Every few minutes Mail tries to send the message it out. It tries and tries for a long time. Then I get an error message.

I can send new messages, but not that one. And I cannot delete it. Very annoying.

I had the same problem. I had drafts that were in Mail from before my upgrade to Leopard and I couldn't delete them.

What I ended up doing...rather than deleting and reinstalling my mail accounts...was to address the drafts to myself and send them. Then, I was able to delete them from my inbox.

Hope this helps.

Nate

I also have the problem of not being able to delete drafts in mail. I thought that surely Apple experts would be reading these discussions and would fix the problem with the latest upgrade. But, I just did the latest upgrade and still is not fixed. Apple, PLEASE NOTICE and fix. Thanks.

10.5.1 May fix it. What many have done though, is address the draft to themselves, and mail it. Poof!

I had the same problem, an email sitting on my draft folder wouldn't delete, it would only go grey till next time i came back to it to find out nothing has changed.
In my case, I have 3 accounts listed in Mail, my .mac, my ISP and gmail. this draft was sitting on my ISP draft folder so what I did was 1) make sure no email form the ISP were sitting in my inbox, I moved them into their respective folders in my local directory... 2) under preferences, accounts, i removed the ISP email account. all inbox, draft and trash folders respectively to that account were just simply removed from Mail. Finally re-created the account, all folders were back on. I did get rid of that unwanted draft email! hope it works for you.

Until Apple fixes this bug, simply send the unwanted draft to yourself or better yet to a volatile account (cf. mailinator).

10.5.1 didn't fix this but at least this thread contains a workaround. Thanks, everyone!

Same problem here, no way of getting rid of certain draft messages. Please Apple, fix this!

Same problem here. Can not delete a draft item. I even tried to send it to myself to get it out of the drafts... didn't work. Sent the e-mail and still remained in the drafts folder. Come on Apple!!

This is a new problem occurring for me. Ordinarily, in similar circumstances I could send it to myself and it would go away. Now it comes back ad infinitum.

What's up here? Is this a new issue?