Saving an email as a draft disappears in Mail!

I found that by navigating to the message with Finder (~/Library/Mail/Mailboxes/Drafts(Gmail).mbox/Messages/) the message that I saved as a draft was in there, I double clicked it, and it opened it. I could copy and paste, and when I clicked "show in mailboxes" it did re-appear in my drafts area, although before I went through finder, it was missing.

Clearly this appears to be a bug... but finding it in finder was a successful work-around for me...

Hope this helps.

Hello to both,

For Big Steveo, open Home/Library/Mail/this account folder -- look to see if perhaps the Drafts folder has no extension. If a POP account, then the name should be Drafts.mbox for this folder. If you only have a folder named Drafts, rename it to be Drafts.mbox (assuming POP again). Mail can store to a folder that does not have the mbox extension, but then cannot display from it.

For NightHawk: please confirm location where you found the cited Drafts folder. If accessing as POP, the one where storing the drafts should not be in the Mailboxes folder, but in the POP account folder. If accessing as IMAP should likewise be in the IMAP account folder. In neither case should the name include (Gmail) if that is what you are reporting?

Ernie

Message was edited by: Ernie Stamper

As soon as I start composing a draft to be sent via the Mail App, I get an error message syaing that the draft cannot be saved and indeed it is not saved. However, I can finish the message and " SEND" with no problem and it does appear in the "SENT" list. I can then click, read and save it as Text.

But the advantage of composing a draft for a later review is not there. Other people get duplicate drafts, I get none. Any help in understanding this bug would help. The "guiness bar guys" at the Apple Store dodge this issue.

Hi,

Did you use the Finder to observe whether the Drafts folder exists where it should?

Ernie

My problem may fit in here.

I can no longer save a working email as a draft. There are 30 drafts in my inbox but I cannot add anymore. If I save as a draft, when I look in the drafts folder, the draft is not there and the folder number does indicate a new draft saved. This has been happening for a couple weeks.

I too have this problem. There is a Draft.mbox for my google account and 3 emails inside, however, they do not appear in Mail. I checked the permissions of these folders an everything seams to be in working order.... this is definitely a bug.